ACCORDING TO LAWYERS, MANY VIOLATIONS WERE COMMITTED DURING PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION ON SARIBEK SUKIASIAN’S CASE

Noyan Tapan
Feb 26, 2010

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Many violations were committed
during the preliminary examination on the case of Armeconombank
Board Chairman Saribek Sukiasian and Ayrarat fair Director Artashes
Stepanian. Their lawyers Lusine Sahakian and Yervand Varosian declared
at a February 23 press conference.

Opposing to the opposite assertions of Chief of Yerevan Police Nerses
Nazarian the lawyers, in particular, mentioned that S. Sukiasian and
A. Stepanian were illegally kept at the Police station for 9 and 10
hours, respectively, for 4 hours were deprived of the possibility of
meeting their lawyers as the latters were not permitted to enter the
police station.

Besides, the address was mentioned wrongly in the court judgement
on holding a search at S. Sukiasian’s office and the investigator
blotted out it with his hands, wrote in his opinion a right address
and said "I corrected the address." That is, according to the lawyers,
obviously an illegal search was held. Investigator Artur Petrosian
confiscating the text of declaration on the violations in the case
being a legal secret prohibited the lawyers to copy that declaration.

And breaking the office doors by several dozens of policemen,
according to the lawyers, is nothing else but damaging the property
deliberately and abuse of official position as the chief entrance of
the office was open and the policemen could easily enter the office
through that entrance.

"Since the day of filing the case I have never seen even if one
document made up by the preliminary examination body that corresponds
to the law," L. Sahakian declared adding: "And under the circumstances
to assert that the case has no violations means that either Chief of
Yerevan Police was deceived or he deceives society." And the final
goal of all this turmoil, according to the lawyers, is taking away
from S. Sukiasian the Byuregh factory belonging to him and giving it
to a concrete person, Ruben Hayrapetian.