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12:27 17/03/06

OPEN LETTER FROM

TO: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
ROBERT KOCHARYAN
DEAR MISTER PRESIDENT
The circumstance of non-responding to the applications
in advance addressed to you gave grounds to suppose
that they didn´t reach the addressee, consequently
choosing the way of turning publicly to you by the
open letter, we hoped to express our anxiety
concerning illegal actions, had committed towards the
company “Royal Armenia” and its heads. As a result of
machination of a group of managing officials at the
customs state committee of the Republic of Armenia
/hereinafter CSC/ on 10.03.2005 criminal legal
proceedings were instituted towards the company “Royal
Armenia”; and during the seventh month of the criminal
case investigation, joint owner of the company
Hakobyan Gagik and vice director Ghazaryan Aram were
arrested on 11.10.2005 and had been under arrest for
about 5 months. Analyses of one-year criminal case and
five months arrest of the latter revealed that not an
objective investigation complying with criminal
proceedings law of RA was held but a criminal terror,
which was carried out by the investigator Marukyan
Mnatsakan in favor of carelessness towards all the
arguments and written evidences of the company and
arrested officials, declaring them false without
analyzing to the extent of attempts to qualify the
whole economic activity of LLC “criminal” within the
period of the last six months. While all the
incriminating proclamations, made by Bedrossian Vache,
USA citizen, declared as “victim”, by the
investigator´s own free will had been accepted as a
gospel truth and he had kept the people arrested on
the grounds of it. The investigator who was the first
responsible for ungrounded arrest, made all the
efforts for justifying his illegal actions and
fabricated accusations concerning the arrested. We
understand that some customers stand under his back,
however we find that law must operate in Armenia,
consequently availability of the customers doesn´t
release the investigator from an obligation to act
objectively, lack of which is unspeakably tremendous.

Actually the company “Royal Armenia” as well as
Hakobyan Gagik and Ghazaryan Aram were punished for
non-implementation of illegal requirement made by
corrupted managing officials at CSC, however the funny
side of a situation is that the latter were accused
because formerly Hakobyan Gagik, refusing the
high-ranking customs officials, denied to execute.
According to the hypothesis of preliminary
investigation, Hakobyan Gagik had been accused in
fraud as well, which became apparent in debts to
Bedrossian Vache, USA citizen, and refusal from
returning the debts, however in reality Bedrossian
Vache, USA citizen owed money to Hakobyan Gagik and at
these circumstances the label fraudster suited
Bedrossian Vache, USA citizen. The applications sent
to you, containing details of the above-mentioned and
written evidences were handed over the President´s
Staff of RA in time, consequently we ask to become
familiar with them in order to make sure in the
pointed out.

Taking an opportunity we want to recall to the address
of CSC, during the meeting at the beginning of year
you expressed your negative treatment: for clearance
of various customs values of imported identical goods
with similar provisions, as during the last 2.5 years
the company “Royal Armenia” had been considered as one
of the victims of such illegal actions made by the
customs officials. For the first time the company
“Royal Armenia” stated about it at press conference,
held on 26.07.2004, revealing corruption disclosure
available at the base of customs values “games”,
established for imported coffee by CSC. As a result
the corrupted high-ranking customs officials has been
unpunished up to day and continue to hold profitable
offices, and the fathers of corruption together
instituted criminal legal proceedings towards an
innocent person, revealed “imprudence” while
expressing his loudly addressed opinion concerning the
corruption. We also remember that the instruction
given by you to the head of CSC during the meeting at
the beginning of year, to punish all the officials,
which bear responsibility for establishing wrong
customs values in 2005. Let us point out that over two
months passed after meeting, but nothing was said
about execution of your instruction by the head of
CSC.

Proceeding from the above-mentioned we ask your
cooperation for termination of illegal actions,
carried out towards the company “Royal Armenia” and
its heads as well as for releasing innocent people in
criminal-legal sense.

Thanks beforehand
“Royal Armenia” JV LLC
Director /signature/ Toni El Labaki
Lawyer /signature/ Minasyan Gevorg
March 14, 2006

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