Dadasyan is the third suspect detained in suspicion of the crime. Armenian law enforcers back in April arrested two other people Tonoyan and Ohayian linked with the same issue. The two men reportedly brought the enriched uranium wrapped in cigarette boxes.

Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili made the first comment regarding an attempt to bring enriched uranium in Georgia while being in Washington. Guardian publication later revealed more details into the matter.

Two Armenians, Hrant Ohanyan and Sumbat Tonoyan, have pleaded guilty in a Tbilisi court to an attempt to sell a weapons-grade sample of highly enriched uranium in the Georgian capital to a man they believed to be a representative of an Islamist jihadist group.

Ohanyan and Tonoyan, who are expected to be sentenced in the next two weeks, admitted smuggling 18 grams of the uranium into Georgia hidden in a lead-lined cigarette box which had been stashed in a maintenance hatch aboard a night train from Yerevan, the Armenian capital.

Dadayan was caught in 2003, when the 200 grams of weapons grade uranium he was carrying triggered a radiation sensor at the Armenian-Georgian border. He bribed his way out of detention but was later arrested by Armenian authorities. He only served a few months of a two and half year sentence.