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Armenia former deputy prosecutor-general brought to police
24.02.2008, 15.02
YERENVA, February 24 (Itar-Tass) - Former Armenian Deputy
Prosecutor-General Gagik Dzhangiryan was brought to police on Saturday
evening, Itar-Tass learnt at the public relations service of the
Armenian police department.
Its report notes that the organised crime division of the Armenian
police department received information that armed people whose aim is
to destabilise the situation in the Armenian capital, are driving in
two cars along the Bagarshapat-Yerevan highway.
Officers of the organised crime division stopped a BMW and Lada cars at
around 23.00. People in the cars, including Dzhangiryan and his
brother, offered resistance. All of them were brought to the organised
crime division.
Dzhangiryan had on him a Czech-made pistol with 15 cartridges, while
his fellow travellers had a Makarov pistol with cartridges and a rifle.
Police officers found in the cars a shotgun, a loaded Browning pistol,
a dagger, handcuffs and a bulletproof vest. A criminal case was
instituted in connection with this incident. The investigation is
conducted by the Main Investigation Police Department of the Republican
Interior Ministry.
On Saturday morning, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan issued a
decree, removing Dzhangiryan from his post and depriving him of his
rank of state justice adviser.
The Prosecutor-General's Office reported that Dzhangiryan had broken up
requirements of the law on the prosecutor's office, under which
`prosecutors are forbidden to be party members and to go in for
politics in any other way'. `Under any circumstances, a prosecutor is
duty-bound to display political restraint and neutrality,' the
Prosecutor-General's Office noted.
Dzhangiryan had participated in and addressed a rally of the Armenian
opposition.
24.02.2008, 15.02
YERENVA, February 24 (Itar-Tass) - Former Armenian Deputy
Prosecutor-General Gagik Dzhangiryan was brought to police on Saturday
evening, Itar-Tass learnt at the public relations service of the
Armenian police department.
Its report notes that the organised crime division of the Armenian
police department received information that armed people whose aim is
to destabilise the situation in the Armenian capital, are driving in
two cars along the Bagarshapat-Yerevan highway.
Officers of the organised crime division stopped a BMW and Lada cars at
around 23.00. People in the cars, including Dzhangiryan and his
brother, offered resistance. All of them were brought to the organised
crime division.
Dzhangiryan had on him a Czech-made pistol with 15 cartridges, while
his fellow travellers had a Makarov pistol with cartridges and a rifle.
Police officers found in the cars a shotgun, a loaded Browning pistol,
a dagger, handcuffs and a bulletproof vest. A criminal case was
instituted in connection with this incident. The investigation is
conducted by the Main Investigation Police Department of the Republican
Interior Ministry.
On Saturday morning, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan issued a
decree, removing Dzhangiryan from his post and depriving him of his
rank of state justice adviser.
The Prosecutor-General's Office reported that Dzhangiryan had broken up
requirements of the law on the prosecutor's office, under which
`prosecutors are forbidden to be party members and to go in for
politics in any other way'. `Under any circumstances, a prosecutor is
duty-bound to display political restraint and neutrality,' the
Prosecutor-General's Office noted.
Dzhangiryan had participated in and addressed a rally of the Armenian
opposition.