Lusineh Sahakyan and Yervant Varosyan, the lawyers for Saribek Sukiasyan, today requested that the Chamber of Advocates sit in session to hear their side of the story regarding charges brought against their client.

Saribek Sukiasyan, brother of former MP Khachatur Sukiasyan, has been charged with threatening the life of Gor Davtyan to force him to sell 41% of “Byuregh” company shares. Yerevan police Chief Nerses Nersisyan has publicly stated that on February 12 that received an urgent call from Davtyan saying that his life was in danger at the offices of Sil Group. Nazaryan says that when police responded they found Saribek Sukiasyan, Davtyan and Artashes Stepanyan, Director of the Ayrarat Marketplace, in the Sil Office, along with documents that Davtyan was forced to sign.

Today, attorney Sahakyan, said that no such papers were ever seized by police and that they handed over videotapes from the Sil office showing Davtyan calmly leaving the building.

“Put another way, Police Chief Nazaryan presented information to the public that can be described as nothing less than false. Either the Yerevan police chief is deceiving the pre-trial investigative unit or else he knows what happened and is hoodwinking the public. In either case, the chief is out of line on this,” said Mrs. Sahakyan.

The attorney said that the defense hadn’t presented all their evidence because the investigative unit will manufacture evidence to the contrary.

Lusineh Sahakyan said that on February 11, Gor Davtyan had telephoned attorney Ara Zohrabyan, telling the lawyer that he had been threatened by Ruben Hayrapetyan, a Member of Parliament and president of the RoA Football Federation.

Davtyan said that he had been escorted to a security center, including the Prosecutor’s Office and had been coerced into selling Byuregh stock to Hayrapetyan,

Attorney Sahakyan added that Davtyan refused to comply and called Zohrabyan, asking that he arrange a meeting with Sukiasyan and that he expected the latter’s assistance. Sukiasyan is said to have met with Davtyan. During the meeting, Davtyan asks that Sukiasyan help him with certain legal documents so that he could refuse the stock sale to Hayrapetyan.

Attorney Sahakyan stated that Zohrabyan drafted a letter to Hayrapetyan which pointed out certain legal issues that prevented Davtyan from selling his stock.

Sukiasyan’s lawyers admit that Davtyan is being used as a patsy in the affair which actually seeks to deprive their client’s family of the Byuregh company as well

Readers will remember that Bjni, the mineral water company, was seized from Sukiasyan on non-payment of tax charges. The company now belongs to Ruben Hayrapetyan.