The policemen of Arabkir Division Investigation Department of the RA Police were sentenced by the Court of First Instance of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts for abusing and exceeding their official authority.

According to the evidence of the criminal case, H. Simonyan worked as a senior policeman in the Arabkir Division Investigation Department of the RA Police and D. Atoyan was a policeman in the same department whose supervisor was H. Simonyan.

The Court considered justified the accusation brought by the prosecutors as to which D. Atoyan prepared materials based on H. Vardanyan’s statement about an incident that had taken place in the “Pioneer” night club on November 25, 2008 at night.

H. Simonyan took explanations from the participants of the incident with false data and D. Atoyan made a decision to refuse the initiation of the criminal case based on these explanations. D. Atoyan presented the statements for confirmation to the person on duty with false information about the crime. According to the presented information no knife had been used during the crime.

D. Atoyan ratified and presented to the confirmation of the head of the division the decision with false data on the refusal of the criminal case prepared by H. Simonyan. D. Atoyan and H. Simonyan admitted their guilt and asked for an accelerated trial.

The Court of First Instance of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts sentenced D. Atoyan to two years and six months of imprisonment according to the RA Criminal Code Article 308, part 1 and H. Simonyan to two years and six months of imprisonment according to the RA Criminal Code Article 309, part 1.