{"id":241738,"date":"2013-10-22T12:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T08:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=241738"},"modified":"2013-10-22T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T08:25:36","slug":"armenian-sport-minister%e2%80%99s-son-arrested-for-drug-trafficking-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/10\/22\/armenian-sport-minister%e2%80%99s-son-arrested-for-drug-trafficking-paper.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Sport Minister\u2019s Son Arrested for Drug Trafficking: Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Last week, RA Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Yuri Vardanyan&rsquo;s oldest son was arrested at the Iran-Armenia border, reports local daily <em>Zhoghovurd<\/em>, citing its own sources.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe paper reports that the minister&rsquo;s son attempted to smuggle drugs at the border, hiding the illegal substances all over his body, but he was caught. Police detained the young man in Kapan, Armenia, while the investigation is underway in Yerevan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Zhoghovurd<\/em> was informed that Yuri Vardanyan is trying not to get involved in the incident, in order to avoid public scrutiny and criticism. The newspaper attempted to verify the news with the RA Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs press spokesperson, however, the spokesperson said he did not possess such information: &ldquo;The minister was busy; he was in meetings; I was unable to verify anything.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe police also did not provide any details.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Photo of Yuri Vardanyan by Aravot.am.<\/em><\/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>Last week, RA Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Yuri Vardanyan\u2019s oldest son was arrested at the Iran-Armenia border, reports local daily Zhoghovurd.<!-- 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":241711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[50893,50891,50892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241738"}],"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=241738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}