{"id":239641,"date":"2013-09-20T19:11:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=239641"},"modified":"2013-09-20T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:12:24","slug":"prominent-war-veteran-arrested-accused-of-swindling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/09\/20\/prominent-war-veteran-arrested-accused-of-swindling.html","title":{"rendered":"Prominent War Veteran Arrested, Accused of Swindling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Four individuals in plainclothes showed up at the house of war veteran and reserve colonel Volodya Avetisyan&#39;s house around 10 pm on Thursday and without producing a warrant, promptly arrested him.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUntil early this morning, Avetisyan was held by the RA Ministry of Defense Investigation Service, then moved to Erebuni Temporary Detention Center, Avetisyan&#39;s friends informed Epress.am. They, as well as his family, have no other information regarding Avetisyan&#39;s arrest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The RA Ministry of Defense Investigation Service today issued a&nbsp;statement&nbsp;saying that Avetisyan was arrested under RA Criminal Code Article 178 Section 2.2, suspected of &quot;swindling large amounts.&quot;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Avetisyan, for fraud and abuse of trust, under the pretense of providing assistance in the matter of exempting citizen H. Zakaryan&#39;s grandson from compulsory military service, swindled 2000 USD from H. Zakaryan. A criminal investigation is underway,&quot; reads the defense ministry&#39;s statement.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Recall, Volodya Avetisyan is one of the leaders of the struggle to improve war veterans&#39; socioeconomic conditions that began in May. He had organized sit-ins in Liberty Square and organized war veterans&#39; visits to the regions. His army comrades informed Epress.am that they will spend the night in Republic Square to protest Avetisyan&#39;s arrest.<\/span><\/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>Until early this morning, Avetisyan was held by the RA Ministry of Defense Investigation Service, then moved to Erebuni Temporary Detention Center, Avetisyan&#8217;s friends&#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":239618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[50113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239641"}],"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=239641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}