{"id":257613,"date":"2014-09-18T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T07:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=257613"},"modified":"2014-09-18T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T07:16:12","slug":"new-penitentiary-department-head-avoids-disclosing-57-million-dram-gift%d6%89-haykakan-zhamanak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/09\/18\/new-penitentiary-department-head-avoids-disclosing-57-million-dram-gift%d6%89-haykakan-zhamanak.html","title":{"rendered":"New Penitentiary Department Head Avoids Disclosing 57 Million Dram Gift\u0589 Haykakan Zhamanak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The newly appointed head of the Department of Penitentiary Institutions, former Deputy Chief of Police, Artur Osikyan, has avoided revealing the source of a 57 million AMD (140,000 USD) gift from 2011 and the means behind his wife&rsquo;s acquisition of four real estate in 2013, reported local daily Haykakan Zhamanak.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">In response to the paper&rsquo;s official letter, about Osikyan&rsquo;s gifts and properties, the Public Relations division of the Department of Penitentiary Institutions said the following, &ldquo;In accordance to the law, DPI head, Artur Osikyan has submitted his financial statements to senior ranking members of the Ethics Committee, from which you can obtain the necessary information.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Senior ranking member of the Ethics Committee, Armen Khudaverdyan, spoke to the paper saying, that a government decision has restricted publishing susceptible information, except information that has already been disclosed.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">In addition, according to Khudaverdyan, the committee members can not be informed about the means of obtaining property of government officials.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Photograph hy.wikipedia.org<\/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>In accordance to the law, DPI head, Artur Osikyan has submitted his financial statements to senior ranking members of the Ethics Committee, from which you can obtain the necessary information\u2024\u2024\u2024<!-- 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":257603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13368,57548,52112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257613"}],"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=257613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}