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On September 2, 2011, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor sent an information inquiry to the Lori Region Prosecutor’s Office.

The Lori Region Prosecutor had applied to the Chief of Vanadzor Police Department with a letter, where he had stated, “Pursuant to the complaints circulated among Vanadzor city residents, it was revealed in the Lori Region Prosecutor’s Office that undefined fines are exacted and paid to different individuals while parking cars in the territory of Grigor Lusavorich, Garegin Nzhdeh and Myasnikyan streets of Vanadzor.”

The Prosecutor had ordered the Police Chief to find out the exactors and the grounds for collecting fines, where they were being entered and who the owners of the aforementioned territories were. Based on the above-mentioned letter, HCA Vanadzor sent an information inquiry to the Lori Region Prosecutor with a claim to provide information on the order the complaints from the residents were recorded, if there were any reports, complaints, applications over crimes, as well as provide the copies in case of their presence.

At the same time, the organization had requested information regarding the RA legal norm by which the order of the Lori Region Prosecutor to the Vanadzor Police Chief was defined. In response to the Organization’s information inquiry, the Lori Region Prosecutor notes, “Although the Prosecutor’s office has no authorization to clarify the laws, nevertheless, in order to avoid further unnecessary correspondence and save time, I would like to notify that the RA Lori Region Prosecutor’s office receives complaints, claims, information or reports from residents through receptions, meetings, phone calls and other means, either orally or in written form. 

“As to providing your organization with judicial documents over material evidence or a criminal case, I would like to specify once again that the RA Criminal Procedure Code envisions their provision only to individuals holding a judicial status and not to every interested party.” The organization applied to the RA Lori Region Prosecutor’s office with a response letter, which runs, “By its information request, the organization has not applied to YOU with a clarification claim on laws, but with an information request regarding the RA legal norm, by which the # 62/4/80-11 order addressed by YOU to the Vanadzor Police Chief is defined. It is also worth noting that the organization asks for information not about the general order the Prosecutor’s Office receives reports over crimes, but about the order by which the information over the specific case mentioned by us was received.

And as to “every interested party” expression, it is stated in the RA Criminal Procedure Code that “Every interested party” is any citizen of the Republic of Armenia, regardless of his/ her place of residence, social status, properties, political and religious beliefs and power, who is disposing the RA Government. “Every interested party” is any citizen of the Republic of Armenia, who pays taxes to form the state budget to be allocated to all state bodies, including RA Prosecutor’s Office, hence, each state official must display respectful attitude towards any citizen of the Republic of Armenia.

The following documents in the Armenian version are attached below:
•    Information Inquiry addressed to the Lori Region Prosecutor by HCA- Vanadzor
•    The responding letter of the Lori Region Prosecutor
•    The response of HCA- Vanadzor