{"id":280812,"date":"2017-05-26T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=280812"},"modified":"2017-05-26T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T09:50:13","slug":"bavra-checkpoint-head-director-of-customs-brokerage-company-arrested-on-bribery-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/05\/26\/bavra-checkpoint-head-director-of-customs-brokerage-company-arrested-on-bribery-allegations.html","title":{"rendered":"Bavra Checkpoint Head, Director of Customs Brokerage Company Arrested on Bribery Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A director of an Armenian customs brokerage services company and the head of the Bavra checkpoint on the Armenian-Georgian border were arrested on May 25 as part of a criminal investigation into bribery involving customs officials of Armenia\u2019s State Revenue Committee, the office of the Armenian Prosecutor General reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officers, the official statement said, received data that officials of the customs service under the State Revenue Committee received bribes from directors and employees of a number of organizations, as well as individuals, through staff members of a customs brokerage services company in return for clearing their goods through customs at tariffs lower than those prescribed by law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on evidence gathered, the General Department on Combating Organized Crime of the RA Police has launched a criminal case in relation to reception of bribes, giving a bribe and mediation in bribery,\u201d the Prosecutor General\u2019s office said, without revealing the names of those arrested.<\/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>A director of an Armenian customs brokerage services company and the head of the Bavra checkpoint on the Armenian-Georgian border were arrested on May 25&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66030],"tags":[67091,67092,55256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280812"}],"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=280812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}