{"id":273019,"date":"2016-06-04T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=273019"},"modified":"2016-06-04T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T09:05:13","slug":"yerevan-court-orders-pre-trial-detention-for-senior-defense-ministry-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/06\/04\/yerevan-court-orders-pre-trial-detention-for-senior-defense-ministry-officials.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Court Orders Pre-Trial Detention for Senior Defense Ministry Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAn Armenian court has issued a decision to impose pre-trial detention on three high-ranking Defense Ministry officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/05\/31\/armenian-defense-ministry-officials-arrested-for-abusing-their-power-press.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">who were arrested<\/span><\/a> on May 30 as part of two separate abuse of power investigations led by the country&#39;s law-enforcement authorities, the press service of Armenia&#39;s Investigative Committee said Friday.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMajor General Mels Chilingaryan, the former head of the ministry&#39;s Armament Department, along with Colonels Mher Papyan and Armen Margaryan, is believed to have abused his official powers which entailed &ldquo;grave consequences.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;According to preliminary investigation, the aforementioned persons have acquired through abuse of their official position various kinds of goods at above-market prices; in some cases, these purchases were unnecessary,&rdquo; the statement said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn particular, according to the law enforcement agency, an unneeded 145 million drams (more than US$ 303 thousand) worth contract was signed by the officials with [an unnamed private company] for the supply of spare parts at exorbitant &nbsp;prices. The officials face imprisonment for up to 13 years, if found guilty.&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>\u201cAccording to preliminary investigation, the aforementioned persons have acquired through abuse of their official position various kinds of goods at above-market prices; in some cases, these purchases were unnecessary&#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":273008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64760,64758,64761,15583,64759,63988,62662,12998,31237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273019"}],"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=273019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}