The Special Investigation Service infroms that during the preliminary investigation of the criminal case investigated at RA Special Investigation Service the advocate of RA Chamber of Advocates Yeghik Ye. was detained on suspicion of assisting an attempt of giving a bribe of especially large amount.

Earlier we informed that the advocate of RA Chamber of Advocates Yeghik Ye. had given a communication on the fact that in February 2015Garik A., coming to preliminary agreement with the convict of RA MJ “Vardashen” Penitentiary Hovik B., who had represented himself as a deputy prosecutor general, giving false promises of assisting him, assigning him in a position at the Prosecutor’s Office, as well as of creating other job perspectives in the future, under the pretext of borrowing money for furnishing the apartment of the deputy prosecutor, ravished from him by deceit a sum of especially large amount – 15 thousand US dollars and a cellular phone with the value of 130 thousand RA drams.

But by further preliminary investigation it was ascertained that the mentioned sum of especially large amount was given to the personrepresenting himself as a deputy prosecutor general as a bribe with expectation of carrying out actions in favour of a person by the criminal case.

Recall that conditioned by the factual circumstances of the case, starting from the necessity of guaranteeing multi-sided, complete and impartial investigation, the criminal case instituted pursuant to point 1, part 3, Article 178 of RA Criminal Code was sent to RA Special Investigation Service.

By the same criminal case Garik A. and Hovik B. were charged pursuant to point1, part 3, Article 178 of RA Criminal Code.

Taking into consideration that Hovik B. served hissentence at a penitentiary no measure of restraint was chosen towards him, and detention was chosen as a measure of restraint towards Garik A. by a court decision.

Preliminary investigation is in progress.

Note: The suspect or the accused of the alleged offence is deemed innocent unless his or her innocence is proved by virtue of the effective court verdict in the manner prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia.

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