ELECTION BRIBE-TAKERS NOT TO FACE LAW IF THEY INFORM POLICE - ARMENIAN LEADER
Mediamax
April 25 2012
Armenia
Yerevan, 25 April: One of the priorities of the activities of the
competent bodies should be relieving of criminal responsibility in
case the people who had got election bribes informed law-enforcement
agencies about it on their own will and helped reveal the crime.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said this during his meeting with
Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepyan today, Mediamax reports.
According to the president, in conditions of such guarantees citizens
who once make a mistake will be given the opportunity to help combating
"election bribes" getting relieved of the unavoidable punishment.
"Of course, the negative phenomenon considerably sets off the
legitimacy of any elections and neutralization of such undesirable
influence and ensuring and holding of free and fair elections is
an important legal and democratic objective of each state," said
the president.
Mediamax
April 25 2012
Armenia
Yerevan, 25 April: One of the priorities of the activities of the
competent bodies should be relieving of criminal responsibility in
case the people who had got election bribes informed law-enforcement
agencies about it on their own will and helped reveal the crime.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said this during his meeting with
Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepyan today, Mediamax reports.
According to the president, in conditions of such guarantees citizens
who once make a mistake will be given the opportunity to help combating
"election bribes" getting relieved of the unavoidable punishment.
"Of course, the negative phenomenon considerably sets off the
legitimacy of any elections and neutralization of such undesirable
influence and ensuring and holding of free and fair elections is
an important legal and democratic objective of each state," said
the president.