COUNTRY OF NAIV AND FRIGHTENED OFFICIALS

Lragir.am
31 Aug 06

On August 31 the trial of the editor-in-chief of the Jamanak Yerevan
Newspaper indicted for avoiding subscription by forged document was
resumed. The trial ended, the speeches of prosecution and defense
and verdict are left.

None of four witnesses showed up. For the witnesses Tigran Harutiunyan
and Arshak Khachatryan, they announced that they are not in Armenia,
for Karen Khachatryan they said they did not find him at home. Maybe
he was playing backgammon with the neighbor? Nobody found it out. No
explanation was given about Garush Mansuryan. Their testimonies were
read. Surprisingly, everyone learned from the media that the marriage
certificate and the birth certificates of his children are forged. "We
believed and trusted his mother, Mrs. Emilia, who worked at the
president administration", said the naiv officials who took or gave
documents to Mrs. Emilia. By the way, the same court sentenced the
70-years-old municipality official for giving a false document. It is
not clear why the officials who were as careless were not involved
in the case. Or how can one describe a country where on hearing the
phrase "president administration" senior public officials tremble with
fear and bow as low as possible? Send your answers to the president
administration and the copies to the first instance courts of Yerevan
Center and Nork-Marash.

It is known that Arman Babajanyan was accused on the grounds of a
letter signed by his former neighbor Khachatryan. Khachatryan wrote
that he felt it was his duty to inform the law-enforcement agencies
that Arman Babajanyan avoided military service by forged documents.

It is not clear why the neighbors of public officials never "fulfill
their civil duties". It is not clear how the counsel for prosecution
Janna Kotikyan insists that the letter was not anonymous when there
is no evidence that such a neighbor exists.

Meanwhile, it is illegal to sue on the grounds of an anonymous letter
or announcement.

Arman Babajanyan’s friend Vahe Abovyan and his wife Armine Arakelyan
did not mention in their testimonies that their certificate of
marriage and birth certificate of their children were forged by Arman
Babajanyan. They did not announce that those documents were stolen
and lost. Whereas, Arman Babajanyan’s attorney Robert Grigoryan found
out that it is possible to get the copy of anyone’s birth certificate
in the United States for 17 dollars.

He got the copies of birth certificates of the children of Vahe
Abovyan and Armine Arakelyan and presented to the court. Attorney
Robert Grigoryan also presented positive references from the mayor
of Glendale, the group of the Armenian media of the United States,
other persons and organizations. The reference of the Armenian media
of the United States seemed suspicious to Janna Kotikyan. Anyway. The
next sitting of the court will be on September 4.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress