{"id":140575,"date":"2011-11-10T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T07:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=140575"},"modified":"2011-11-10T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T07:07:18","slug":"erebuni-district-police-chief-fired-over-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/10\/erebuni-district-police-chief-fired-over-corruption-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Erebuni District Police Chief Fired Over Corruption Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police chief of Yerevan\u2019s southern Erebuni district, Grigor Grigoryan, was sacked on Wednesday following the disappearance of his deputy charged with bribery.<\/p>\n<p>Law-enforcement authorities say the officer, Mihran Keshishyan, went into hiding after being formally accused of demanding $13,000 to end a criminal investigation of alleged drugs trafficking into Yerevan\u2019s Nubarashen prison, the largest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The chief of Yerevan\u2019s police department, Major-General Nerses Nazaryan, acknowledged the direct link between Grigoryan\u2019s sacking and the bribery case handled by the Special Investigative Service (SIS). \u201cEvery manager is responsible for his staff,\u201d he told <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/content\/article\/24386100.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">RFE\/RL\u2019s Armenian service<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> (Azatutyun.am).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that he will be prudent enough to surrender himself,\u201d Nazaryan said, referring to the fugitive officer. \u201cIf not, he will definitely be tracked down. He can\u2019t remain on the run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keshishyan apparently evaded prosecution amid sweeping personnel changes initiated by Vladimir Gasparyan, the new chief of the Armenian police. At least a dozen senior police officials have been dismissed or moved to other positions since Gasparyan\u2019s appointment by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan just over a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Wednesday, the police accused media of spreading false \u201crumors and gossips\u201d about motives behind those changes and thus \u201cinterfering with the normal work of the police.\u201d \u201cThe ongoing cadre changes in the [police] system are \u2026 aimed at improving its work and effectiveness,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>In that regard, Nazaryan refuted a newspaper report that said he too is set to lose his job. \u201cThe minister has told me that we are going to work together better and for a long time,\u201d said the police general.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police chief of Yerevan\u2019s southern Erebuni district, Grigor Grigoryan, was sacked on Wednesday following the disappearance of&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,24772,34385,34386,12336,31700,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}