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  • Vote 2013: Candidate Admits Once Employing Two Suspects In Hayrikyan

    VOTE 2013: CANDIDATE ADMITS ONCE EMPLOYING TWO SUSPECTS IN HAYRIKYAN SHOOTING CASE

    http://www.armenianow.com/vote_2013/43386/armenia_presidential_election_2013_vardan_sedrakya n_paruyr_hayrikyan
    VOTE 2013 | 12.02.13 | 11:15

    Vardan Sedrakyan, a maverick candidate in Armenia's current
    presidential election, has confirmed reports that the two men arrested
    late last week on suspicion of committing an assassination attempt
    against a fellow candidate, Paruyr Hayrikyan, had worked for him when
    he was renovating his house.

    The self-declared expert on Armenian epic poems, however, did not say
    when and under what circumstances he hired the men. He also refused
    to confirm further reports alleging that he had given a car to one
    of them as a gift.

    On February 8, the National Security Service (NSS) announced the
    arrest of two men on suspicion of shooting and wounding Hayrikyan in
    an armed attack on January 31. It said the suspects, identified as
    Khachatur Poghosyan, 46, and Samvel Harutyunyan, 40, confessed to "the
    murder attempt" after being taken into custody the previous day. The
    statement issued by the NSS also described the two as unemployed men
    "illegally residing in Yerevan". It said they both were convicted of
    drug trafficking in the past.

    Talking to News.am on Monday Sedrakyan, who was little known to
    the general public before his nomination to run for president late
    last year, said, however, he did not want to speak further on the
    matter until "the state makes a statement at the state level". He
    only suggested that he could not possibly have had any links to the
    crime against Hayrikyan, saying that lots of people had worked for
    him before.

    In a televised interview aired on Monday, Sedrakyan also claimed that
    authorities planned to arrest him after the end of the elections.

    "Between February 22 and 25, when the results will be in and when
    international observers will have been gone from the country,"
    he claimed.

    Hayrikyan himself gave contradictory comments in regards to the
    identity of the shooter and theories regarding the crime. Still
    before the announcement of the arrests, the 63-year-old Soviet-era
    dissident pointed an accusatory finger at 'Russian imperialism'
    behind the attack, suggesting that the gunman did not have Armenian
    features, but rather looked like a 'European'. He later explained
    that the comment on the 'European' features of the attacker was made
    on purpose to mislead the criminals and help the law-enforcement
    bodies to track them down. Hayrikyan did not appear to insist on the
    'Russian imperialism' trace later.

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