Eight detained in Armenia`s Gyumri - Anti-Corruption Committee

ArmInfo. The Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia reports that 8 people have been detained in the case of giving and receiving election bribes, as well as violating  the ban on charity during the elections in Gyumri.

As part of the case, searches were conducted in the offices of two  parties nominated in the snap elections to the Gyumri Council of  Elders and in the apartments of a number of individuals, as a result  of which documents relevant to the case were found, including lists  of citizens' passport data and handwritten notes.

Three of the arrested persons confessed to committing the  above-mentioned criminal acts and assisted the preliminary  investigation body.

A travel ban was chosen as a preventive measure for two individuals,  and a petition was submitted for the application of administrative  control with the application of such restrictions that will ensure  their proper behavior during the election process and at the stage of  preliminary investigation for the remaining 6 individuals.

The day before, it became known that the Anti-Corruption Committee  had initiated the relevant criminal proceedings. Searches were  conducted in the office of the Mother Armenia bloc in Gyumri, and the  bloc's representative Emma Grigoryan was taken from Gyumri to the  Anti-Corruption Committee in Yerevan, interrogated, and then  released.

Representatives of the ruling political force Civil Contract,  represented by the Governor of the Shirak region and concurrently the  head of the election headquarters of the Civil Contract party - David  Arushanyan and the press secretary of the Prime Minister Nazeli  Baghdasaryan, convened an in the afternoon  in connection with . As the speakers stated, the  current government will not allow the violation of voters' rights.  "There will be no return to the past, when issues were resolved with  the help of 5 or 10 thousand drams," they assured.