Armenian Police officers detain an ethnic Turk wanted by the U.S. law enforcement agencies

On Wednesday, August 29 officers from the General Department on combatting organized crime in collaboration with their colleagues from the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Armenia detained Kevin Oksuz, an ethnic Turk wanted by the United States law enforcement agencies who had come to maintain business activity in Armenia founding an LLC in here.
Earlier, on August 23, Kevin Oksuz was declared internationally wanted on charges of perjury by falsifying and submitting false statements to the Ethics Committee of the House of Representatives.
Armenian Police got on to Oksuz just a day after he was reported internationally wanted and extensive, urgent operative intelligence activities were undertaken under immediate supervision of the Police Chief.
Oksuz was the president of a nonprofit organization of Turkish Americans and Eurasians, which aimed at establishing close relations between Turks and Americans by organizing trips to Turkey and Azerbaijan.
In 2013 he invited several US Congressmen to Azerbaijan and Turkey for a private visit. Private visits of US Congressmen are regulated by the Ethics Committee in accordance with the provisions of US travel the regulations. According to this regulation, travel sponsors must fill in special forms, which will verify the sources of funding the travel, also the sources of payments and actual expenses should be indicated. While Oksuz submitted false documents to the Ethics Committee, noting that the organization never received financing from any source either directly or indirectly.
However, it has now been revealed that the organization actually didn’t pay for all expenses and received additional financing, including from SOCAR Oil Company belonging to the Azerbaijani government.
It has also been revealed that nine Members of Congress and 32 staff members received gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Kevin Oksuz has been arrested.