“Surik Khachatryan’s brothers played a specific role in his organized criminal group, particularly Seyran Khachatryan (nickname Aghalar (translator’s note ‘Mince’) and his sons. Everyone knows that it was Seyran Khachatryan, who in 1999 drunk, armed with a gang, attacked a number of residents in Goris causing serious bodily injuries. It was he, who in 2000, carried out an armed attack over the house of Varazdat, resident of village Verishen with an intention to killing him. Varazdat hardly threw himself out of the window and rescued his life in hiding, – said Samvel Harutyunyan, the former Mayor of Goris in 1992-94, co-chair of the Regional Defense Committee, in the interview with Aravot.am, presenting new disclosures about the crimes related to the brother of the former Governor of Syunik Marz Surik Khachatryan.
According to him, in 2000, Seyran Khachareyan has shot and seriously wounded a resident of Goris, a young man named Garik. “He was not only unpunished for these crimes, he was arrested, a criminal case was brought up, but shortly after he was given a paper of being mad and under the auspices of this paper he did not bear criminal responsibility. In 2000, a collision regarding the incident must have taken place against me, I applied to the police service of Goris, the then Attorney General Petrosyan and the regional attorney of Syunik Marz. I have stated in the application that the crime occurred because Seyran Khachtryan is not crazy, he was issued a paper of being crazy, he is the author of a number of crimes, and he has not been prosecuted. And if he is crazy, his place is in a madhouse. I have got the answer, but so far Seyran Khachatryan is not in the jail nor in the madhouse. And after that he and his sons became authors of numerous crimes. In 2004, his son, Elnor Khachtryan, together with Serob Khachatryan’s son Mayis, with cruelty killed a 30 years old resident of Goris Hovhannes Badalyan, I think the father of 3 underage children. Seyran Khachatryan’s son was not imprisoned even for 1 day. In 2004, in one of the objects of Seyran Khachatryan’s unregistered, illegal, not paying taxes, Surik – Seyran – Serob Khachaturian’s aunt’s grandson, Grigor Manucharyan, with cruelty killed with an ax a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran and was sentenced to prison for only 13 years.” According to Samvel Harutyunyan, in 90s, there were very few prisoners sentenced to death, and afterwards imprisoned that are authors of similar or more severe offenses. “As far as I know, the overwhelming majority of lifelong sentenced to imprisonment are convicted for softer, not so great cruelty of crimes.
It is only in our country that one can get a severe punishment, and a maximum of mild treatment is displayed against the kind of Surik Khachatryan and the representatives of their gang.” As for the property of Aeyran Khachatryan, according to Samvel Harutyunyan, he has only several objects in the city of Goris and close to it. “One is immediately adjacent to the village Verishen, he had seized 5,000 square meters of land belonging to Verishen village community, where he had constructed a food object, and 2 stations in front the object, one is a petrol filling station, and the other for diesel fuel. This object has a large parking ground for trucks. He has another object at the entrance to Goris city, which is again a capital construction, food object and so on. That gravest crime of the Persian occurred in the first object. His son has a nightclub in Goris. These kind of objects are not only undocumented, unregistered, yet they are operating for years, and bring huge benefits to Seyran Khachatryan, who has never paid a penny as a tax to our government.
Moreover, people say that he has not paid a penny for the utilities services, electricity, water, and gas.” He referred to the Chairman of SRC, saying: ” It is simply stunning, Gagik Khachatryan, why are you sleeping, you did not manage to detect for 18 years. You put a charge on, condemn a missing one for a small offense, and deprive of income opportunity. What? Is Khachatryan’s blood redder than the other citizens’ of Armenia? The same applies to law enforcement officials, who today continue their criminal inaction against numerous crimes of Surik Khachatryan, notorious Liska, and his gang. Maybe they are not brought to the law, because Surik Khachatryan, his brother Aghalar having the paper of a mad, their murderer, their addicted, criminal children, and other members of the gang should commit other crimes against me, others, perhaps, Artak Budaghyan, perhaps other citizens for the purpose to deserve respect with all of these, and only after then one of them will be brought to the criminal liability.”
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Hripsimeh JEBEJYAN
Good, nformative article, but bad translation. Some parts I didn’t quite understand what was really meant. It is important that if you publish articles in English, it should be comprehensible for the English reader.