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    Emil Lazarian
  • 11 months ago
    • Categories: 2024

Parliament majority MPs to ask court to grant bail for Synergy boss and employees

 13:09, 6 February 2024

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 6, ARMENPRESS. Members of Parliament representing the ruling Civil Contract Party will file a motion to court asking to co-sign bail for Synergy International Systems owner Ashot Hovanesian and two of his employees who were arrested last week and placed into pre-trial detention.

The Synergy representatives were arrested along with several economy ministry officials in a corruption investigation concerning a government procurement tender.

Civil Contract faction leader Hayk Konjoryan told reporters the motion will be filed to court on behalf of the entire faction.

“We have some public signals for this, and we also took into account the mitigating circumstances, especially in case of the women, in terms of their children. We’ve discussed this yesterday at the faction’s meeting. We are basically in favor of presenting a motion requesting bail,” Konjoryan said, adding that they haven’t yet collected the signatures.

He said that Speaker Alen Simonyan did not attend the faction meeting where the matter was discussed. One of the arrested suspects is Simonyan’s sister-in-law.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS