On September 20, an extraordinary meeting of the Voskepar community council, region of Tavush, took place at the request of 4 out of its 5 members. The members of the council
expressed their protest against using the public service car of the local administration, VAZ 2107, for personal purposes.
The members of the council also stated that they were afraid that the public service vehicle would be used in Voskepar for bringing voters to polling stations on the day of local elections, September 23.
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Shortly after the meeting, that public service car left for Yerevan. Amram Aghbalyan, the driver, is long-standing Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) leader Amram Aghbalyan’s father’s uncle’s grandson. Being a graduate of a technical college (he graduated from a radio engineering college), he directs the village house of culture and works as a driver. Having a personal car, that day he went to Yerevan driving the public service car to bring his mother who was coming from Russia to participate in the September 23 election to Voskepar.
At the council meeting, the council members also raised the issue of purposefully using the 3 million AMD contributed by businessman Mikayel Vardanyan to renovate and furnish the Voskepar house of culture. The village headman said that they would come back to this issue after the September 23 election.
The council members said that many workers of the village administration were the relatives of village headman Hrush Aghbalyan. Ishkhan Aghbalyan, the deputy village headman, is Hrush Aghbalyan’s father’s uncle’s son, the accountant of the village administration is Ishkhan’s wife and librarian Nara Siradeghyan is the village headman’s uncle’s daughter-in-law.
We called Hrush Aghbalyan, the headman of Voskepar, to get an explanation regarding these issues, however, he didn’t answer our calls, then he became temporarily unreachable.
Voskan SARGSYAN
