YEREVAN, /ARКА/. Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) and the US Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration have signed today a memorandum of cooperation, SRC said in a press release.
It said the document was signed by the SRC chairman Edward Hovhannisyan and William Warren, the regional director of the Middle East region of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the US Department of Justice.
The purpose of the memorandum is to deepen cooperation between the two structures in combating illicit trafficking in drugs, their analogues, precursors, as well as money laundering and other crimes.
According to SRC, the signing of the Memorandum is the result of effective cooperation between the Anti-Smuggling Department of the SRC and the Office of the Regional Drug Administration of the US Department of Justice.