{"id":282572,"date":"2017-10-24T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282572"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:44:59","slug":"yerevan-banana-importer-convinced-investigation-into-acid-attack-on-his-warehouse-to-be-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/10\/24\/yerevan-banana-importer-convinced-investigation-into-acid-attack-on-his-warehouse-to-be-suspended.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Banana Importer Convinced Investigation Into Acid Attack on His Warehouse to Be Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/refrigerators.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282570\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/refrigerators.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the acid attack on the Yerevan warehouse of the banana importing company Tropica \u201cis just a mere formality and will most likely be suspended,\u201d company\u2019s founding manager Vahram Mirakyan told Epress.am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigator dealing with our case told us that the investigation is not going anywhere and will most probably be soon suspended,\u201d Mirakyan said,<\/p>\n<p>Recall, unidentified persons broke into the warehouse on August 10 and poured acid on the refrigerators where bananas imported by the company are stored. The warehouse is located within 20 meters from residential buildings, all of which have surveillance cameras. According to Mirakyan, however, the preliminary investigation has neither questioned the buildings\u2019 residents nor viewed the surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigator once called me and asked whether I had the phone number of the security guard. I said I didn\u2019t, and that was it. They\u2019ve yet to locate and question the guard. The investigator came to the scene for the first time on Monday. They recorded that the lock had been broken, drew up a 5-page protocol about the fact and asked us to sign it. And that\u2019s about it,\u201d Mirakyan added.<\/p>\n<p>Note, Tropica has been importing 40-60 tonnes of bananas to Armenia monthly since the end of 2016. The company has a number of contracts with major supermarket chains to which it sells the produce. Tropica was founded in late 2016, after prime minister Karen Karapetyan made a \u00a0speech promising to end monopolies on imports of goods to Armenia. \u201cIf anyone faces any obstacles, they should phone me personally,\u201d the PM had said.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Karen Karapetyan\u2019s speech, banana imports to Armenia used to be monopolized by the Catherine Group company reportedly owned by Mihran Poghosyan, former head of the Judicial Acts Compulsory Enforcement Service. Poghosyan left his post in spring 2016 and has since been elected to the Armenian National Assembly on the ticket of the ruling Republican Party.<\/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>&#8211; The investigator dealing with our case told us that the investigation is not going anywhere and will most probably be soon suspended&#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":282569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66047,66030],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282572"}],"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=282572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}