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Former Police Chief of Armenia Vladimir Gasparyan charged for abuse of power

armenpress.am09/18th/2019, 10:18

Former Police Chief of Armenia Vladimir Gasparyan charged for abuse of power

Armenia’s investigative committee revealed a number of circumstances regarding the ongoing criminal case connected with the abuse of power by separate officials of the defense ministry, the Investigative Committee told Armenpress.

Vladimir Gasparyan (former police chief of Armenia) has been charged.

According to the investigation results, Vladimir Gasparyan, serving as head of the military police department from June 1997 to October 2010, later as deputy defense ministry until November 2011, being aware that three servicemen of the defense ministry’s military unit being designated as a military police officer do not conduct their military service, but carry out other tasks instead, enabled them to conduct activities not deriving from their status. In particular, one of these servicemen worked as a driver of Levon Sargsyan, the brother of the former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, and the two worked as Alexander Sargsyan’s bodyguards.

In addition, Vladimir Gasparyan, serving as deputy defen...

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