Ashot Mkhitaryan, Karo Karapetyan. nominal weapons presented by the prime minister are firing

On the night of October 6, after the murder of former NA deputy Karo Karapetyan (Yauvetsi Karoi) in Yerevan and the discovery of the nominal weapon of former NA deputy Harutyun Gharagyozyan at the scene, the demands to publish the list of nominal weapons and confiscate them became active among the public.

A former member of parliament was killed yesterday evening Karo KarapetyanJuvec Caron. The incident occurred as a result of shots fired at the “Aigi” restaurant complex in the Nork-Marash administrative district around 10:40 p.m. Karo Karapetyan died on the way to Erebuni Medical Center.

A former deputy of the National Assembly is suspected in the murder of Karo Karapetyan Harutyun Gharagyozyan (Caramel South). The nominal weapon belonging to him was found at the scene. Today it has already become known that the body of Harutyun Gharagyozyan was found with a gunshot wound in the area of ​​one of Zovuni’s workshops. According to preliminary information, the incident was a suicide.

Although the demands to publish the list of nominal weapons and to confiscate them continue to be heard among the public, the government hides the names of the persons who received nominal weapons. “Named weapons, like diplomatic passports, should be confiscated, because as it turns out, they shoot,” wrote Facebook users.

It turns out that in 2006-2017 The Prime Minister of Armenia awarded 107 people with nominal weapons. It is unknown who the former and current prime ministers encouraged with nominal weapons. Until last year, the government staff refused to provide the list of persons who received nominal weapons, arguing that the Prime Minister’s decisions on awarding weapons are individual legal acts, have a stamp “For service use” and contain personal data.

Still in 2008 In December, “Hetq” reported that in response to its inquiry, the then head of the government’s staff Davit Sargsyan provided in 2007 from April to 2008 December 12, the list of persons who received weapons as a gift from the Prime Minister. At that time, it was revealed that Tigran Sargsyan had encouraged the vicar of the Ararat Patriarchal Diocese with such a weapon. Samvel Kchoyan։

The government’s website also publishes information that in 2002, then Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan received the director of the Russian Federal Border Guard Service, Konstantin Totskunu, and awarded him a nominal weapon, considering his great personal contribution to the organization of the border protection of Armenia.

Prime Minister in 2011 Tigran Sargsyan awarded the then Chief Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan with a nominal weapon at the ceremonial session dedicated to the Prosecutor’s Office employee’s day and the 93rd anniversary of the Prosecutor’s Office.

In 2009, again by the decree of Tigran Sargsyan, police chief Alik Sargsyan, received a nominal weapon as a gift. State bodies have issued official messages about this in the media, while the government currently considers this information to be personal data.

The executive does not provide valid facts that these decisions have become closed and non-public.

It is known that three of the nominal weapons provided by the Prime Minister were declared invalid in 2015-2016. The police information was the basis for such a decision. Either a crime was committed with these weapons and the police reported it to the government, which decided to take back the donated weapons, or the awarded person approached the police with a request to return them.

Years ago, it was found out that crimes were committed with weapons donated by the prime minister. In particular, in 2005, mayor of Nor Hachn Armen Keshishyan prime minister Andranik Margaryan he killed the director of the Arzni branch of the “Electrical Networks of Armenia” company with a gifted nominal weapon Ashot Mkhitaryan։

At the time, “Hetk” also inquired from the government staff about how much money was allocated from the state budget for the purchase of these weapons in the last three years. The executive informed that no money was allocated to the government staff for this purpose from the state budget. And from where he got those weapons, the government does not inform again.

He says that these weapons were acquired from various sources, including by the structures that submitted nominations for awarding nominal weapons. What are the “various sources” and the structures that submitted nominations for awarding nominal weapons, the government staff does not inform again.