No criminal proceedings to be initiated based on Prime Minister’s statement on low-quality fuel
12:36, April 15, 2017 | News, Own news
Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor filed a crime report with the RA Prosecutor General’s Office regarding RA Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan’s widely-discussed statement on the failure in the military technical equipment due to low-quality oil products.
Numerous mass media referred to the said statement made by the RA Prime Minister at an RA National Assembly session; in particular, politik.am news website posted a publication entitled “Grave Crime: Does the Prime Minister Accuse Barsegh Beglaryan?” quoting K. Karapetyan and qualifying his statement as a crime report. And 1in.am news website referred to Seyran Ohanyan’s statement as he threatened to disclose the names of those guilty.
The Prosecutor General’s Office qualified such statements as abstract data based on assumptions and refused to initiate criminal proceedings; at the same time, it provided the justification below: “During the April four-day war, there were no cases of failure in special military machinery and performance of military tasks due to any problems with fuel.”
The Prosecutor General’s Office also stated that the materials prepared on the statement of the father of lieutenant colonel Alexan Arakelyan, perished in the four-day war, that there was water instead of diesel fuel in the fuel cells of tanks and there were no batteries, showed that those facts were groundless and therefore no criminal proceedings on that statement was initiated either. HCA Vanadzor also referred to this in its Report on the Death Circumstances of Servicemen Perished in the Hostilities of April 2016 and the state of social security of their families published past November.