STOCK OF WEAPONS FOUND IN A ARRESTED ARMENIAN DEPUTY’S RESTAURANT

Regnum
March 14 2008
Russia

A whole arsenal has been found in Vanatur restaurant owned by a
member of Armenian opposition Sasun Mikaelyan. Armenian national
security established that deputy Sasun Mikaelyan, arrested on March
12, ordered his restaurant’s custodian to hide weapons that he had
accumulated, REGNUM was informed at the Armenian National Security
Service press office.

During the operative and investigative action on March 13, 20 grenades
(F1, RGD-5, and RG-42), 15 anti-tank grenades, 8 fuses for anti-tank
grenades, 15 fuses for F1 grenades, one improvised gun, and two
sound-and-light rockets, 11 boxes of cartridges of different caliber,
1 discharged submachine gun magazine charger, 15 syringe needles,
and 2 bottles of psychotropic substance Prometazine.

Mikaelyan has been charged under Part 3 of Article 225 (organization
of mass riots) and Part 1 of Article 300 (usurpation of state power)
of the Armenian Criminal Code. Khachatur Sukiasyan, deprived of deputy
immunity and member of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s campaign headquarters,
editor-in-chief of the Haykakan Zhamanak daily Nikol Pashinyan are
wanted by investigation. Sukiasyan, as well as his colleague, is
charged under Part 3 of Article 225 and Part 1 of Article 300 of the
Armenian Criminal Code. Nikol Pashinyan is charged under Article 316
(violence against public authority).

Earlier, Armenian parliament deprived of deputy immunity
parliamentarians Khachatur Sukiasyan, Sasun Mikaelyan, Hakop
Hakopyan, and Myasnik Malkhasyan. Hakopyan and Malkhasyan were later
detained. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, 90 persons
have been charged in the criminal proceedings upon the mass riots in
Yerevan of March 1.