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Dual US-RA citizen Alfred Haroutyunyan’s lawyer Rouzanna Sirekanyan will file a complaint against the sentence of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Malatia-Sebastia administrative district of Yerevan handed in yesterday on the case of transporting ammunition factory production from the US to the RA by smuggling. R. Sirekanyan said about that to the reporter of ‘Pastinfo’.

The Court under the presidency of the judge Karen Farkhoyan found A. Haroutyunyan guilty on the grounds of the Article 215, Clause 2 of the RA Criminal Code, i.e. smuggling, and sentenced him to 4 years of conditional imprisonment with two years of probation period.

The dual citizen A. Haroutyunyan, member of the Hunters Union of the US since 1982 and of the RA since 2010, decided in 2009 to permanently reside in Armenia and for that purpose transported his personal belongings from the US to the RA. In September 2011 he returned to the RA bringing part of his personal belongings with him, including 3 hunting guns, for the transportation and custom clearance of which he received appropriate permission from the RA Police. The rest of the personal belongings was packed and sent to the RA by a freight company.

All his belongings in the form of weapons of different size and composition were confiscated in December 2012. A report on violating the customs rules was made.

The defendant did not recognize himself guilty, stating that he did not have the intention to transport the goods without declaring them. He just packed his belongings in the US some time ago and forgot which staff is in which package, otherwise he would declare them according to the procedure prescribed by the law. “Not declaring them made no sense, because, as I mentioned I was released of customs duties”, noted the defendant. “No one told me that I had to declare those goods, I haven’t read about that, otherwise I would necessarily declare them”, noted the defendant in his testimony.

According the lawyer Rouzanna Sirekanyan it becomes clear from the analysis of the evidence that underlie the charge introduced to the defendant, that A. Haroutyunan transported civil weapons from the US to the RA, with respect to which he referred to the RA Police as a foreign national and received the permission of the latter regarding the transportation of the goods to the RA.

The lawyer finds that not declaring of the above-mentioned goods can only invoke administrative responsibility, thus A. Haroutyunyan should not bear criminal responsibility and must be justified.

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