Category: 2018

Trdat Khachatryan, the son of former governor of Syunik, Surik Khachatryan, applied to Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan to join the armed forces. The letter of the former governor’s son was published by lawyer Armen Martirosyan.

In a letter to the Minister of Defense Trdat Khachatryan wrote: “I am Trdat Suriki Khachatryan, born on July 23, 1996. In all official documents, including the criminal case No. 90100518, I am presented as the youngest son of Surik Khachatryan, former governor of Syunik, RA.

With the diagnosis of “moderately expressed neurasthenia”, I received a 3-year postponement for the winter draft of 2014 by the decision of the central medical commission.

In 2017, I was declared unfit for military service during the winter draft and registered in the reserve army. In fact, I got the disease on the following occasions. In 2013, in Goris, in the yard of our house, Avetik Budaghyan died as a result of mutual shooting, Nikolay Abrahamyan, Artak Budaghyan were seriously injured. I was a participant in the mentioned incident and helped the wounded. Avetik Budaghyan died in my arms, and with the help of the boys, I put the wounded in the car and took them to the hospital in Goris. This phenomenon has had a profound effect on me. And here, one year after the mentioned incident, the doctors diagnosed “moderately expressed neurasthenia” and for that reason I received a postponement, even though I wanted to be drafted even then,” the letter says.

The letter also states that in 2017-2018, with the help of his parents, he took various types of medical, health, and psychological measures (applying to various doctors, specialists, various medical centers, including medical institutions abroad), which had a positive effect, and he feels better than before.

Currently, the investigator has appointed a forensic psychiatric inpatient commission examination, which started on July 30, 2018.

“Regardless of the conclusion of the examination, I inform you, as the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, that I am ready to serve in the Armed Forces of Armenia. My only request and wish is to give me the opportunity to fulfill my duty to my homeland,” the letter says.

It became known earlier that in the criminal case under investigation in the proceedings of the Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee Trdat Khachatryan was charged with evading conscription or alternative service by forgery or other fraudulent means.

According to the police, Tigran and Trdat Khachatryan, the sons of former governor of Syunik Surik Khachatryan, not suffering from the disease that is the basis for exemption from military service, obtained documents, using which they were exempted from military service. During the preparation of the materials, it was found that: Tigran and: Trdat Khachatryan both at school and later in college, they did not show symptoms of the disease attributed to them.

A consultation was held under the leadership of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, during which the problems requiring an urgent solution in the irrigation sector were discussed.

This was reported by the Information and Public Relations Department of the RA Government.

The Prime Minister first referred to the existing needs related to irrigation, the forecasts presented earlier and emphasized. “In general, the current situation of Lake Sevan forces us to record that we should stop treating Sevan as a toy or a water container. It is absolutely unacceptable, and the practice of treating Sevan as a water container, unfortunately, has turned into a state policy in Armenia for a long time and we are seeing its consequences today. I hope that the attendees came to today’s discussion with this mood and attitude.

We have to finally break this closed and unwanted chain.”

Then the responsible persons presented the necessary information regarding the filling level of the reservoirs, the amount of water needed to fully close the irrigation season, the possible measures to fill the breach, the necessary information related to the Mkhchyan and Ranchpar pumping stations, on which an interesting exchange of ideas took place, various recommendations were presented in the direction of solving the irrigation problems. Then the reduction of water losses from irrigation systems, the control of hydroelectric power plants and emerging environmental issues were addressed.

As a result of the discussion, the Prime Minister appointed a Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan and with the involvement of the representatives of the concerned departments, form a working group that will discuss the problem of providing the necessary irrigation water to the farms in the shortest possible time and will present relevant recommendations.

“It is necessary to study the situation and find solutions to the problem without releasing water from Lake Sevan. The problem should be solved maximally effectively and in a short time,” he stressed Nikol Pashinyan, while emphasizing the need to develop the drip irrigation system in the republic.

The President of the Republic Armen Sarkissian has left for a short unpaid vacation, which he will spend abroad.

This was reported by the press office of the head of the country.

Ruzanna Beglaryan, the wife of Vachagan Ghazaryan, who held the position of the first deputy head of the state security service of the RA Special Investigation Service, was charged on 08.03.2018 with the commission of the publicly dangerous acts provided for by Article 314.3, Part 2 and Article 310.1, Part 1 of the RA Criminal Code. being the declaring official V. A member of Ghazaryan’s family hid the data to be declared about the real amount of money he had, and also got rich illegally.

The SIS news service reports that R. Beglaryan in 2018 On May 22, 2017, he submitted to the Ethics Commission of RA high-ranking officials. in the property and income declaration, as in 2014, 2015, 2016, he declared AMD 25,000,000, USD 29,000 and EUR 17,400 in cash.

Meanwhile, the investigation revealed that R. Beglaryan in his 2017 in the declaration of property and income, he hid the data to be declared about the real amount of money he had, which led to the non-declaration of particularly large amounts of AMD 350,817,000, and the increase in his property during the reporting period significantly exceeded his legal income and was not reasonably justified by them, therefore, the latter became illegally enriched.

R. A signature not to leave was chosen as a preventive measure against Beglaryan. The investigation is ongoing.

It should be noted that Vachagan Ghazaryan was the head of the bodyguard of the 3rd President of RA Serzh Sargsyan. He was also charged with illegal enrichment. Ghazaryan remained in custody for about a month, but they were able to pay the amount of bail set by the Appellate Court, 1 billion drams, and now Ghazaryan is free.