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    Armenia's Nature Protection Ministry Staff Arrested on Bribery Charges

    15:30 - 05.03.10


    Arsen Petrosyan, the Deputy Chief of the Armenian State Inspectorate
    on Nature Protection, has recently been caught in a case on corruption
    and arrested together with his chief Tigran Grigoryan.

    In a reference to this case, head of the General Department of Fight
    against Organized Crime of RA Police Hunan Poghosyan said at a press
    conference today that he had not, in recent months, come across
    stronger evidence for cases of corruption than this one.

    `I don't think I have recently seen a more well-founded case on
    corruption than this one,' said Poghosyan.

    According to him, preliminary interrogation of Arsen Petrosyan has
    revealed that he had been involved in another corruption in the same
    case.

    Poghosyan also confirmed the rumors that Tigran Grigoryan, the former
    Chief of Armenian State Inspectorate on Nature Protection, used to be
    a police officer.

    Both Tigran Grigoryan's and Arsen Petrosyan's cases have already been
    brought to court.

    In 2009, Petrosyan inspected basalt and gypsiferous clay subsoil
    operated by `Delta-Fragment' Ltd. in Yerevan on assignment for the
    Minister of Nature Protection, reports Arka news agency.

    For not including the detected violations in the protocol and
    reduction of penalty size, Petrosyan required 400,000 AMD from Vardan
    Aslanyan, director of `Delta-Fragment' Ltd., and received the bribe on
    December 16, 2009.

    Tert.am
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