{"id":269358,"date":"2015-11-18T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269358"},"modified":"2015-11-18T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T07:53:58","slug":"33-year-old-armenian-judge-declared-over-700-thousand-in-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/11\/18\/33-year-old-armenian-judge-declared-over-700-thousand-in-assets.html","title":{"rendered":"33-Year-Old Armenian Judge Declared Over $700 Thousand in Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Administrative Court of Armenia is authorized to examine appeals challenging decisions&nbsp;of state agencies; however, local Zhoghovurd newspaper notes, the majority of the Court&#39;s judges are relatives or children of government officials, which means &ldquo;the independence of the Administrative Court is out of the question.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJudge Ani Harutyunyan, for example, is the daughter of former deputy chief of Armenia&#39;s National Security Service Grigor Harutyunyan. The 33\u058ayear-old lawyer was appointed Administrative Court judge in 2013; however, she&#39;s managed to generate &ldquo;very considerable wealth for herself.&rdquo; According to Harutyunyan&#39;s annual asset declaration filed with the state Commission on the Ethics of High-Ranking Officials, the judge&#39;s financial assets amounted to AMD 62 million (about $128,400), $350 thousand and EUR 200 thousand at the end of 2014.&nbsp;<\/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>Judge Ani Harutyunyan, for example, is the daughter of former deputy chief of Armenia&#8217;s National Security Service Grigor Harutyunyan. The 33\u058ayear-old lawyer was appointed Administrative Court judge ..<!-- 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":269350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17210,60191,63164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269358"}],"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=269358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}