ACCUSERS NOT READY TO QUESTION

Panorama.am
21:35 19/09/2007

The court case against the leaders of "Royal Armenia" continued today,
with testimony from the organization’s vice-president, Aram Ghazaryan,
starting. Beginning his testimony, Ghazaryan pointed out that he was
not a part owner, but merely a paid employee. This fact had not been
noted until today, in regard to his being rated as an equal to Gagik
Hakopyan, Royal Armenia’s director.

Ghazaryan’s testimony basically said that he had falsified no
documents, that he never used an "obviously falsified" document, and
that no falsification was ever done in his presence. "Is there in fact
an organization who prepares seals whose workers can certify that they
saw Aram Ghazaryan order or receive seals? Of course not." Ghazaryan
added that not one of the charge against him have been proved, and
are based on the conflicting testimony of Vatche Petrosyan.

After Ghazaryan’s testimony, his accusers were to present him
questions, but more time was requested from the court to prepare
their questions.

The next court session is scheduled for October 3.

We remind that Gagik Hakopyan and Aram Ghazaryan were cleared of tax
evasion charges in the Nork-Marash first-instance court on July 16
and set free.