KAPAN, MAY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. 106 cases of crime in return for 85 of the same period of the previous year were registered in the marz of Syunik in the first quarter of 2006. As Colonel Ashot Ghahramanian, the Syunik Regional Department Chief of the RA Police mentioned in the interview to the Noyan Tapan correspondent, this increase is mainly provided by the effeciency of the struggle against narcotism: 15 cases of 21 ones of the increase are crimes connected with narcotism. Releaving of crimes on criminal cases being under examination made 88.5% in the marz in January-March, in return for 83.3% of the same period of the previous year. It was mentioned that that index is higher of the averige republican one which made 75.9% in the first quarter.

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