Yerevan Police Chief confessed today, when questioned by reporters, that his son was the owner of the “Moskvichka” supermarket chain. It seems that a newspaper had hinted that Chief Nazaryan had advised mid and low-level police employees to do their family shopping at the “Moskvichka” stores.

The newspaper in question went so far as to imply that mechanisms were enacted to single out cops who heeded the call of their boss and that sales receipts were posted in a police registry. Chief Nazaryan denied the allegations and said that he “wouldn’t stop so low as to force police officers to shop at those stores.”