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    PROSECUTORS ASK ARTHUR BAGHDASARIAN TO PROVE HIS ALLEGATIONS BY EVIDENCE

    ARMENPRESS
    Feb 5, 2008

    YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS: The Office of the Prosecutor-General
    has asked a presidential candidate, Arthur Baghdasarian, to provide
    material and other evidence grounding his allegations that some people
    are engaged in vote buying for the government candidate.

    A spokeswoman for the Office of the Prosecutor-General, Sona Truzian
    , told Armenpress that a special task unit of the Office set up to
    respond to election-related crimes, asked Baghdasarian to prove his
    allegations as under Armenian legislation vote buying is a serious
    crime entailing a lengthy prison punishment.

    She reminded of a legislation clause that demands that individuals
    and mass media possessing such information and disseminating it
    shall share it with law-enforcement bodies and show evidence to prove
    their allegations.

    An Internet newspaper, Lragir, said during a February 2 news conference
    Arthur Baghdasarian accused the government of using extensively the
    so-called administrative resource, vote buying , collecting passports
    and making some lists.

    Baghdasarian also said he possesses information about bribe
    distributing persons and a videotape showing a government official
    committing a crime.
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