Writer, publicist and politician Vano Siradeghyan has died aged 75, his family has announced.
Vano Siradeghyan was born on November 13, 1946 in the village of Koti.
He held several high-ranked positions in the 1990s. Between 1992 and 1996 he was Minister of Internal Affairs and Mayor of Yerevan from 1996 to 1998.
After President Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s resignation in February 1998, criminal charges were filed against him. Siradeghyan disappeared in April 2000, and had been wanted by Interpol since.