Iranian national who escaped from State Revenue Committee building found and arrested

The Iranian national who escaped from the building of Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) has been found and arrested, the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia reported. A criminal case has been opened over the escape.

On November 6, an arrested man escaped from an SRC administrative building at 10 Isakov Avenue in Yerevan. The building houses the SRC’s Department of Customs Services and Control at Land Border Crossing Points and its Department of Customs Services and Control of Foreign Economic Activity.

Milad M., a 36-year-old Iranian citizen who had been brought to the building from Syunik Province, escaped during an investigative procedure carried out as part of the pretrial investigation in a criminal case.

The criminal case against him was opened in Syunik Province, and the Syunik Court of General Jurisdiction ordered him held in custody as a preventive measure.