{"id":268744,"date":"2015-10-22T18:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=268744"},"modified":"2015-10-22T18:11:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:11:31","slug":"armenian-opposition-lawmakers-bribery-allegations-unsubstantiated-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/10\/22\/armenian-opposition-lawmakers-bribery-allegations-unsubstantiated-officials-say.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Opposition Lawmaker&#8217;s Bribery Allegations &#8216;Unsubstantiated,&#8217; Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) parliamentary faction leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/10\/14\/opposition-lawmaker-stresses-his-distrust-of-armenian-law-enforcement-refuses-to-cooperate-with-investigation.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Levon Zurabyan lacked criminal intent in stating<\/span><\/a> that the RA Constitutional Court Chairman Gagik Harutyunyan had bribed the Council of Europe&rsquo;s Venice Commission for a positive conclusion on the Serzh Sargsyan-initiated constitutional amendments, the Armenian Prosecutor&#39;s office said in a statement issued on Thursday, October 22. The lawmaker&#39;s actions, as stated by officials, did not involve the subjective aspect of false denunciation, i.e., a direct intent.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn addition, the statement said, the Armenian police did not find any evidence to support that a bribery had occurred; moreover, Zurabyan failed to appear at the police station, did not provide explanation or factual evidence to substantiate his allegations. &ldquo;[Law enforcement] were thus led to the conclusion that [Zurabyan&#8217;s] claims were false, and that there were no instances of offering or giving a bribe to the Venice Commission.&rdquo;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTherefore, officials added, prosecutions decided not to initiate criminal proceedings over Zurabyan&#39;s &ldquo;unsubstantiated claims.&rdquo;<\/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 addition, the statement said, the Armenian police did not find any evidence to support that a bribery had occurred; moreover, Zurabyan failed to appear at the police station, did not provide explanation or factual&#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":250470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10341,10340,12178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268744"}],"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=268744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}