An advocate was charged with making large scale fraud and motivating to give large amount of bribe with the case being investigated in Regional Investigative Department of Syunik. The Investigative Committee reports.
According to the source, a 46 years old resident of Syunik region reported on December 9 that the advocate demanded bribe for imposing her son non-custodial punishment.
According to the applicant, in October-November, 2015 the advocate demanded and received over 1.000.000 AMD to bribe the officials, the prosecutor and the judge, but then stole the money.
A criminal case based on the citizen’s report was initiated on December 9, which is being carried out in the Regional Investigation Department of Syunik region.
On December 14, 2015, based on the obtained evidence, the advocate was charged under Article 178, Part 2, Point 2 and Article 34- 38-312, Part 2 of the RA Criminal Code. On the same day, the investigator solicited the Court of the First Instance of Syunik region to apply detention as a precautionary measure against the advocate. The Court granted the request.
The investigation is in process.
Notice: The person suspected in or accused of an alleged crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in the manner prescribed by the RA Criminal Procedure Code, in accordance with the Court’s verdict made effective.
