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    PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF HAYRIKIAN SHOOTING

    http://asbarez.com/108637/presidential-candidate-arrested-on-suspicion-of-hayrikian-shooting/
    Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

    Former presidential candidate Vartan Sedrakyan

    YEREVAN (hetq.am)-Vardan Setrakyan, a candidate who ran in the
    February 18 presidential election in Armenia, has just been arrested
    on suspicion of ordering the January 31 shooting of Paruir Hayrikian.

    This latest development is being reported by shamshyan.com. The news
    outlet says the court is now reviewing a petition by Armenia's National
    Security Service to keep Setrakyan in pre-trial custody.

    Hayrikian, who also was a presidential candidate, was shot outside
    his Yerevan home just before midnight that day. He was rushed to
    hospital with wounds to his right collarbone.

    Hayrikian, who spent years in Soviet jails for his dissident views,
    believed that the shooting was the work of foreign intelligence
    agencies, in particular Russia.

    Khachatur Poghosyan and Samvel Haroutyunyan

    On February 7, Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) arrested
    two men as suspects in the shooting.

    One was Khachatur Poghosyan (born 1972 who has a criminal record for
    drug peddling), and Samvel Haroutyunyan (born 1972).

    The NSS later stated that the two men provided details about the
    attempted assassination attempt on Hayrikian. A revolver was found
    in the house of one of the suspects during a police search. Forensic
    experts claimed that a bullet found at the scene of the shooting had
    been discharged by the same type of revolver.

    It then turned out that the two suspects were known to Vardan
    Setrakyan, a self-proclaimed specialist of national epics, who ran
    what can be mildly called a quirky election campaign.

    The suspects had performed repairs on Setrakyan's house. Setrakyan
    declared that a Masonic organization based in Western Europe and the
    United States were behind the hit on Hayrikian.

    Setrakyan even went so far as to claim that presidential candidate
    Raffi Hovannisian was a member of that secret organization.

    Setrakyan argued that it was all a cleverly devised plot to link him to
    the shooting, cause his arrest, and to remove him from the political
    scene. He boasted that the West wanted to remove nationalists like
    him in order to pave the way for a more pro-U.S.

    foreign policy in Armenia.

    During the campaign, Setrakyan predicted that he would win 81% of
    the votes and would become the fourth president of Armenia.

    At the same time, he even predicted that he would be arrested four
    or five days after the February 18 election.

    According to the official election results, Vardan Setrakyan came in
    last out of a field of seven with 6,210 votes (0.5%.

    Paryur Hayrikian, the candidate he is now charged with ordering the
    attempted assassination against, received 18,096 votes.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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