ArmInfo. On January 10 in the morning in front of the building of the Prosecutor General's Office a protest rally was launched with the participation of victims in a high- profile case on the illegal adoption of children. The protesters - mostly mothers who have lost their children - are demanding the arrest of the director of the Republican Institute of Reproductive Health, Perinatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology CJSC Razmik Abrahamyan and deputy director Arshak Jerjeryan.
Recall that the prosecutor's office earlier appealed the decision of the court of general jurisdiction on the measure of restraint on three of the five defendants in the scandalous case, including Abrahamyan and Jerjeryan. At the end of December last year, the court rejected the relevant applications for the election of arrest as a preventive measure. Meanwhile, the prosecutor's office considers these decisions unsubstantiated, in connection with which appeals were filed.
Thus, the illegal organization of adoption of children has more than an impressive history, and Abrahamyan, as the victims say, should be punished accordingly.
We add that in the criminal case on the illegal seizure of newborn children from their parents, 5 people were detained by prior agreement between a group of people and their adoption by foreign citizens. All of them are suspected of illegally separating the child from the parents by prior conspiracy.
As previously reported, the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia revealed gross violations of Armenian legislation when children were adopted by foreigners in Armenia. Thus, evidence was obtained that two citizens of the Republic of Armenia, using their contacts in one of the republican obstetric institutions, in a number of departments of the Republic of Armenia, as well as in orphanages, with a gross violation of the legislation of Armenia, organized the process of adoption of more than three dozen Armenian children by Italian citizens.
To this end, a number of obstetric institution employees and other employees endowed with managerial powers, by prior conspiracy, intentionally and for personal gain, from 2016 to 2018, forced them to abandon the children and against their will give consent to adopt more than one dozen women who have come to the maternity ward of this company for an abortion due to social or personal problems, threatening to make their pregnancy public, exaggerating the illness of the child and providing false information in order to exert psychological pressure Moreover, in some cases they did not disdain to demand a bribe from women in labor for rendered medical services.
Having written documents on abandonment of children, the majority of infants with appropriate medical diagnoses were sent to orphanages. A criminal case has been instituted; an investigation is underway.