YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN. A tendency of decrease of importing Armenia vehicles hijacked abroad has been noticed during the recent years. Hovik Hovhannisian, the Chief of the Department on Struggle against Illegal Circulation of Motor Transport Means of the 3rd Inspectorate of the RA Police Department General on Struggle against Organized Crime, stated about it at the November 24 press conference. In his words, 35 813 motor transport means were reviwed from 2004 till now. 135 of those were in international investigation, and factory numbers of 40 ones were re-stamped. It was found out as a result of researches that compared with the previous year, 63.2% more vehicles were imported Armenia in 2005, and the number of vehicles being in international investigation decreased 39.1%. Those indexes made, correspondingly, 33% and 40% during the 9 months of 2006. By the way, 106 of 175 vehicles hijacked in the RF and found out in Armenia were bought by citizens and brought to the republic from Georgia. In H.Hovhannisian's words, the main circumstance making the affair of founding out hijacked cars is that a number of countries does not place data of hijacked cars in the Interpol information basis. He, particularly, mentioned the U.S., Australia, Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iceland, Isreal, Korea, Portugal, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan among those countries.

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