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Public Relations and Media Department of the RA Police informed ‘Pastinfo’ that by the data of first 9 months of 2012 80 cases of false denunciation were reported in comparison with 70 and 89 in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

As the Head of the International Cooperation and Public Relations Department of the RA State Department Arsen Babayan informs, according to the information of the ‘RA judicial system’ database 27 cases were examined in the court between January-September 2012, 27 were convicted, 1 was justified. In January-September 2010 17 cases were examined, 17 people were convicted, and 23 cases were examined and 28 people convicted in the same period of 2011.

By the impression of the lawyer Inessa Petrosyan, Article 333 of the RA Criminal Code, false denunciation, has been used in the judicial practice since recently. In the past the Article was not so much implemented and was not so spread.

According to the lawyer, it is important in the question of correctly evaluating the action, so that the preliminary investigation body would deeply investigate and first of all find out, whether the person realized that the information provided is false, if yes, the action can be qualified as making a false denunciation regarding the crime. ‘As a rule, people think that the information they provided is correct, just there can be cases when they avoid declaring the sources, which can become a reason for introducing a charge. The preliminary investigation body should reveal the sources by itself, which they often cannot do and the burden of proving falls on the shoulders of the information provider, who is being accused of providing false information’ noted I. Petrosyan.

Lawyer Amalya Avagyan came across a case when the person informed that when giving his property in mortgage a trade agreement was made instead of credentials, the person did not know what he was signing and instead of being qualified as an injured party the person was accused of false denunciation. During the trial the charge on the grounds of that article was removed from the scope of the charge, however during all the 6 months of the preliminary investigation, the person was under arrest.

At the same time, another case of ‘crime’ has elements of ridiculousness and tragedy, when a student reported that he forgot his phone in a taxi ‘mortgage was appointed as an alternative preventive measure against him’. Finally, by means of remote-distant search the person was revealed along with another taxi passenger who ‘took the phone’ and the case was suspended.

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