Davit Ghazinyan was arrested

“Strong Armenia” deputy candidate Davit Ghazinyan was arrested. The Anti-Corruption Committee informs about this.

Earlier we reported, that the Central Electoral Commission agreed to initiate criminal prosecution against Davit Ghazinyan, the deputy candidate of the “Strong Armenia” bloc, and to deprive him of his freedom, for which the Prosecutor’s Office submitted petitions.

Lawyer, representative of “Strong Armenia” Aram Vardevanyan said after the session that the accusation refers to the preparation of election bribery.

By the way, Davit Ghazinyan, who left the CEC before the discussion, was waiting in the courtyard of the Anti-Corruption Committee building, because he did not have much hope for the CEC, and so that, as he mentioned, don’t allow the mask show. 

Earlier, in a conversation with us in front of the CEC, Davit Ghazinyan referred to the recording made public in the case and to mention

“I did not give any money to anyone. As for the recording, you can see that the main role is played by the cleaner. I always jokingly say that it’s good if they don’t tell you, don’t spend this money on something else all of a sudden. this is only election bribe money. In other words, there is nothing legal here.

I don’t know who gave it to whom, what he did. there is no such amount. First of all, even if it was theoretically given, what does it mean: I entered the territory, or I gave it to someone and said, this is the money for the election bribe? It’s absurd.”

It should be noted that today the CEC is discussing the petitions of the prosecutor’s office concerning three “Armenia” bloc MPs, including the leader of the bloc Robert Kocharyan, and two “Strong Armenia” candidates. Out of the five, only the second president of Armenia was not petitioned to deprive him of his freedom.

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