ARMENIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL DENIES DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF BEING MURDERED FOR PASSPORT FRAUDS

ARKA
Feb 16, 2009

YEREVAN, February 16. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Prosecutor General Aghvan
Hovsepyan denied Friday the rumors on passport frauds being the motive
of RA Deputy Police Chief Gevorg Mheryan’s murder.

"This is another fable that aims at misguiding certain people for
political or other reasons," Hovsepyan said, adding allegations have
become a common occurrence in Armenian reality.

The Armenian press has recently spread information about Armenians in
Russia using thousand fake passports before the 2007-2008 parliamentary
and presidential elections in Armenia. Rumors have begun circulating
that the Russian law enforcement agencies had sent the Armenian Deputy
Police Chief an inquiry about the case before he was murdered.

The prosecutor general believes the rumors aim at casting a shade on
the transparency of last year’s presidential election in Armenia.

In his turn, Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said he possesses
no such information. "I have never heard about it before. We do not
have any such problems," he added.

On the night of February 3, RA Deputy Police Chief Gevorg Mheryan who
was in charge of the passport and visa services, was shot to death
on the seventh floor of the building he had lived in.