Thursday, December 20 2018 14:37

ArmInfo. Chief of the Armenian  police, Valery Osipyan, refuted the rumors that the law-enforcement  agencies " take under " of criminal authorities, and continues to  cooperate with them. Osipyan told reporters on December 20 that he  was ready to resign if someone could prove these accusations. 

According to Osipyan, thieves are also people, and they enjoy  constitutional rights on a par with everyone and bear corresponding  obligations. However, as the head of the Police emphasized, the  information in the media about the possible "protection" of the crime  is not true. "I declare to you officially, never in Armenia has the  crime been under such control as today", he said.  Referring to the  information that these days a large number of criminal authorities  arrived in Armenia, who, as before, have the opportunity to freely  enter and leave the country, Osipyan explained that a ceremony took  place the other day in memory of a relative of the so-called criminal  authority Artem Kanevski (Harutyunyan) and they and his relatives  visited the grave. 'They, together with relatives, visited the grave,  then went to celebrate. The police knew about it, knew in advance.  Were carried out operational and preventive measures. Both you and  the society should be sure that we know about the slightest movements  of crime, "said Osipyan.

The chiefvof the Armenian Police also refuted the information that  the law enforcement authorities managed to find in Prague the nephew  of the former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan - the son of  Alexander Sargsyan Narek Sargsyan with the help of criminal authority  Andranik Soghoyan ("Zap"). "If someone can prove that the police  collaborated on this issue with criminal authority, I will resign  from my high state post right now. This can not be", - he said.  Earlier, the media reported that the new authorities of Armenia also  began to work closely with criminal authorities. It was noted that it  was precisely as a result of this cooperation that the nephew of the  former President Serzh Sargsyan, Narek Sargsyan, was put on the  wanted list in the Czech Republic. "Despite the official report  issued by the police, Narek Sargsyan was detained with the close  cooperation of various police units, the National Interpol Bureau in  Armenia and law enforcement agencies of several countries, but to our  knowledge, the location of Narek Sargsyan issued criminal authority  Andranik Soghoyan ( "Zap"), who has been engaged in criminal  activities in the Czech Republic for many years and is hiding from  the law-enforcement agencies of this country in Armenia, "the  publication noted.