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LEVON CHAKHMAKHCHYAN WAS ARRESTED
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[04:31 pm] 05 June, 2006
Levon Chakhmakhchyan representing the Parliament of the Republic of
Kalmikia in the RF Council was arrested while getting a bribe of 300
thousand USD, Russian Mass Media report. The workers of the Security
Federal Service arrested him on June 2 and found the mentioned sum
in his bag.
By the way, this sum was only a part of the bribe, the rest was to be
transferred to his bank account. The whole sum was to be 1.5 million
USD. Levon Chakhmakhchyan himself claims that the sum is not his and he
has never seen the money. Besides, he announced that "it is all slander
organized by the head of one of the Russian aviation companies."
The Prosecutor's Office in Russia confirmed that they confiscated
the money not from Chakhmakhchyan himself but from one of the two
other people who were with him. By the way, besides Chakhmakhchyan
his son-in-law was also arrested in connection with machinations in
the Calculation Chamber.
A1+
[04:31 pm] 05 June, 2006
Levon Chakhmakhchyan representing the Parliament of the Republic of
Kalmikia in the RF Council was arrested while getting a bribe of 300
thousand USD, Russian Mass Media report. The workers of the Security
Federal Service arrested him on June 2 and found the mentioned sum
in his bag.
By the way, this sum was only a part of the bribe, the rest was to be
transferred to his bank account. The whole sum was to be 1.5 million
USD. Levon Chakhmakhchyan himself claims that the sum is not his and he
has never seen the money. Besides, he announced that "it is all slander
organized by the head of one of the Russian aviation companies."
The Prosecutor's Office in Russia confirmed that they confiscated
the money not from Chakhmakhchyan himself but from one of the two
other people who were with him. By the way, besides Chakhmakhchyan
his son-in-law was also arrested in connection with machinations in
the Calculation Chamber.