On April 18, the anti-corruption committee arrested the vice-rector of the Armenian State Pedagogical University, Mariam Ispiryan, and her son, charging them with a number of charges, including abuse of official position and official forgery. However, to the surprise of many, the latter’s work was not suspended.
As “The Authority” reminds, in October, the university’s rector, vice-rector and a number of employees were arrested, who did not accept the various accusations presented to them and the case was sent to the court, but their work activities were suspended.
“The fact that the latter did not enjoy anyone’s patronage is more than clear, and the doors of the university were closed to them and they were not even allowed to enter the university by the order of the minister of KGSMS, which was essentially a gross violation of human rights. This act surprised even the law enforcement officers at that time.
And today, Mariam Ispiryan is sitting in her office and seems to have successfully forgotten what happened to her and is posing with a knowledgeable face for the information posted on the university’s website.
The university claims that Mariam Ispiryan is one of the appointed cadres of Minister of Education and Culture Zhanna Andreasyan and enjoys her high patronage, and even the alleged crime committed does not become a basis for suspending her activities.
The university community is puzzled, why was the work activity of the highly respected rector and the other vice-rector suspended and why is Mariam Ispiryan, admitting the fact of committing a crime, in the university today? At the same time, it is stated that Narek Mkrtchyan from Parakart, KP, currently the RA ambassador to the USA, is one of his patrons.
We witnessed how Mkrtchyan freed his brother accused of a crime from criminal liability and what a comedy that case turned into, and now we are witnessing another illegality, but this time in the field of education. How will the RA Prosecutor’s Office and the RA Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications respond to this question,” the source writes.
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