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    The Court Acquitted the Museum Director Who Had Handed out Election Bribes

    http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/09/28/114548/
    September 28, 2012 19:02


    Shoghik Melkonyan, the 41-year-old director of Mher Lazarian Home
    Museum, was charged with handing out election bribes on the National
    Assembly election day, May 6, `under the nose' of the GALA TV Company,
    in Charles Aznavour Square, from a GAZelle with 29 Õ-Õ- 719 license
    plate belonging to resident of Gyumri Vazgen Sargsyan. GALA, a
    Gyumri-based TV company, filmed and showed the video entitled `What is
    going on here¦?' in which one can clearly see citizens be handed out 5
    thousand AMD.

    Immediately after the video had been shown, the investigation
    department of the Shirak region gathered evidence and denied launching
    an investigation as if there was no corpus delicti.

    Then an investigation was launched by the decision of Armenian
    Attorney General Aghvan Vardanyan according to Article 154.2, Section
    2. The investigation was carried out by the special investigation
    service and it was revealed that the briber was the director of Mher
    Lazarian Museum under Gyumri Town Hall.

    The indictment reads, `Shoghik Melkonyan is charged with giving bribes
    to 5 residents of the town of Gyumri on May 6, 2012, at around 6 p.m.
    compelling them to participate in the election and vote for the
    Republican Party.'

    Eduard Manukyan, the president of the trial court of the Shirak
    region, considering that lady hadn't been tried before, the references
    from the workplace were positive, she was in charge of two persons and
    honestly regretted about her deed, decided to condemn her to 3 years
    in prison, but to suspend the sentence and put her on probation for
    two years. So employing Article 70 of the Armenian Criminal Code, the
    court put the lady's behavior under supervision and entrusted that
    supervision on the respective local unit of the alternative sentence
    enforcement department.

    By the way, there was a speedy trial at the request of the accused.

    Let us mention that Vahan Khachatryan, the owner of the GALA TV
    Company, achieved his goal to some extent by this ` the latter said in
    an interview given to www.aravot.am that his goal was to disgrace the
    bribe takers, in order that people took care of their dignity and kept
    away from such a humiliating phenomenon. Actually, besides the museum
    director, the bribe takers were also disgraced ` they were also
    compelled to come to police stations and give evidence as witnesses in
    the framework of this case.

    Nune AREVSHATYAN



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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