Turkish citizen wanted by Interpol arrested in Georgia’s Adjara region

Georgian law enforcement officers have arrested a Turkish citizen wanted internationally under an Interpol red notice in the country’s Adjara region, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

Officers from the Adjara Main Division of the Central Criminal Police Department detained the suspect in the Black Sea city of Batumi.

The suspect was being sought at the request of Turkish law enforcement authorities for multiple serious crimes and had been placed on Interpol’s red notice list for international arrest.

Extradition procedures are currently underway, the Ministry added.