"THEY ARE A TROIKA, NOT JUDGES"

A1+
[05:51 pm] 29 November, 2007

Ashot Sargsyan, attorney of the two owners of "Royal Armenia" Company
was not present during the delivery of the sentence. He said to "A1+"
that it was discrediting for him to come to the Court and to see the
faces of the judges. "Have you seen a true Court?

It is not a court; three men in black are not judges.

They are a "troika". And it was clear beforehand, what they would do",
said Ashot Sargsyan.

It should be reminded that the head of FIG Vache Petrosyan accused
the two owners of "Royal Armenia" of smuggling, avoiding taxes and
of falsifying documents.

The Court sentenced the executive director of the Company Aram
Ghazaryan to 2 years of imprisonment, and one of the owners Gagik
Hakobyan to 6 years of imprisonment.

Ashot Sargsyan informed us that he had appealed to the Court of
Cassation and in case on necessity he would appeal to the European
Court of Human Rights so that "the judges will feel on their skins
how it feels when you are accused of doing".