Former chief of Armenia’s police found guilty of corruption, exempted from punishment

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YEREVAN, July 9. /ARKA/. The Armenian Anti-Corruption Court found former police chief Vladimir Gasparyan guilty of several articles of the Armenian Criminal Code, the court reported on Tuesday./pp

Gasparyan, who served as Chief of Armenia’s Police between 2011 and 2018, was exempted from punishment for some charges due to the statute of limitations. However, he was sentenced to six years in prison for other charges, but was granted amnesty./pp

Additionally, Gasparyan was ordered to pay 200,000 drams as reimbursement for court costs./pp

In 2021, Gasparyan was charged with six felonies, including abuse of official authority, forgery, large-scale embezzlement, and laundering of over 2.11 billion drams (approximately $4.3 million)./p