{"id":269520,"date":"2015-11-25T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T08:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269520"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T08:30:12","slug":"security-agencies-discover-organized-criminal-group-in-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/11\/25\/security-agencies-discover-organized-criminal-group-in-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"Security Forces Uncover Organized Crime Group in Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Officers of Armenia&#39;s National Security Service (NSS) have uncovered an organized criminal group in Yerevan which &ldquo;intended to carry out numerous serious crimes on the territory of Armenia,&rdquo; reads an NSS official statement.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUpon returning from abroad in 2015, according to law enforcement authorities, former Yerevan resident Arthur Vardanyan &ldquo;created and headed a criminal association.&rdquo; By prior arrangement, the organized group illegally acquired a large quantity of ammunition and weapons, including various types of rifles, pistols, grenades, and other explosives, which was hidden in a rented house in Yerevan&#39;s Nork Marash&nbsp;district.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArthur Vardanyan, as well as nine other members of the group who were at the house at the moment of the search were arrested, NSS stated, adding that a criminal case has been initiated pursuant to parts 1 and 2 of Article 223 (creation of and participation in a criminal association), and part 3 of Article 235 (illegal procurement, transportation or carrying of weapons, ammunition, explosives or explosive devices) of the Armenian Criminal Code.&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>Arthur Vardanyan, as well as nine other members of the group who were at the house at the moment of the search were arrested, NSS stated, adding that a criminal case has been initiated pursuant to parts 1 and 2 &#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":269518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26481,63283,63280,11901,13250,63281,63282,17760],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269520"}],"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=269520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}