PROSECUTORS ASK ARTHUR BAGHDASARIAN TO PROVE HIS ALLEGATIONS BY EVIDENCE
ARMENPRESS
Feb 5, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS: The Office of the Prosecutor-General
has asked a presidential candidate, Arthur Baghdasarian, to provide
material and other evidence grounding his allegations that some people
are engaged in vote buying for the government candidate.
A spokeswoman for the Office of the Prosecutor-General, Sona Truzian
, told Armenpress that a special task unit of the Office set up to
respond to election-related crimes, asked Baghdasarian to prove his
allegations as under Armenian legislation vote buying is a serious
crime entailing a lengthy prison punishment.
She reminded of a legislation clause that demands that individuals
and mass media possessing such information and disseminating it
shall share it with law-enforcement bodies and show evidence to prove
their allegations.
An Internet newspaper, Lragir, said during a February 2 news conference
Arthur Baghdasarian accused the government of using extensively the
so-called administrative resource, vote buying , collecting passports
and making some lists.
Baghdasarian also said he possesses information about bribe
distributing persons and a videotape showing a government official
committing a crime.
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