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The chief of the republican police, of course, an iconic figure in the Yerevan political-horizon force. Vladimir Gasparyan, do not miss a single occasion to show off in front of the cameras, which shows the great reformer, the fanatical Christian, was awarded the pretentious nickname “Zoravar” (commander) by Raffi Hovhannisyan and treated kindly by Serzh Sargsyan. With all its grotesqueness, the police chief of All Armenia, however, is now one of the pillars of the Sargsyan regime.

From speculation to police

In his younger years, Vova Gasparyan, born in 1950, oddly enough, in the ancient Baltic in Tallinn, no talent no different. After serving in the Soviet army and moved to Yerevan, he is five years with a few cronies illegally selling imported building materials. Goods imported mainly from the small country Vova – from Estonia, but sometimes did manage Coy any operation with Hungary – Czechoslovakia. Things were going up the hill, but the boys, so to speak, gone too far, and actually burned, that is caught in the act. And here comes the first miracle in the life of the future “general”: adopted in the country severe punishment tips for speculation somehow bypasses it. Moreover, Gasparyan suddenly becomes an employee of patrol service of the Armenian SSR Ministry of Interior.

It happened in 1982, and at this unpretentious, in principle, the position of our Vladimir prokantovalsya three years, and it was the first time tasted the power that it gave chase. Wanting to gain a foothold in the coveted field of police, Gasparian comes to the big school of Ministry of Internal Affairs, of which a certified cop out after four years. The latter-day “genius detective” is sent to the investigation department of Leninski district of Armenian Republic.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Karabakh war Gasparyan plans not only confused, but even contributed to his career. Due to the acute shortage of staff in the rear, where, naturally, sat out the next lieutenant-general, it as proven extremely obedient to superiors appointed Assistant for Special Assignments Minister of Internal Affairs of Armenia plus more head of the police department of the city of Abovyan. That is two solid positions in the same uniform.

Boss must be able to choose

But the miracles did not end there, of blessed memory, and at the beginning of the 90s he was the Acting Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, and then chief of the police department of Echmiadzin, Armavir and even the entire region. But here waylaid Gasparian first major bummer for a time interrupted by a series of career ups.

The fact is that in Echmiadzin and Armavir around at that time proceeded to completion of the fate of people who returned from the war, General Manvel Grigoryan, pet Vazgen Sargsyan. And it does not suit the green, but Prytkov power-hungry potential rival, which also had to divide the spheres of influence. Gasparyan did not come to the heart fearsome warriors also because no day is not spent at the front. Coming on the massacre Manvel literally kicks Vovochku drove from their territory.

The official biography Gasparyan this bad luck is designated as a necessity “in 1995 due to the transition to another job temporarily resign from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.” But resourceful Vovochka long toiled without reasonable job of work. Realizing that Manvel, enjoying the patronage of the Vazgen Sargsyan alone he can not win, adept at that time in office intrigues Gasparyan swears allegiance to Robert Kocharian, the then prime minister.

And that, that’s right – the principle of “my friend the enemy of my enemy” at all times acted without a hitch, and the rate on gaining strength implacable enemy Vazgen was an excellent move. Kocharian Vova quickly returns to law enforcement agencies by assigning no more nor less than the Deputy General Military Prosecutor. But in 1997, suddenly shot himself instead Gasparyan (the official version) Colonel Avetisyan became the head of the Military Police (VP) of the country.

The soldiers and suicide-racketeers officers

For 13 years of his leadership of the power structure, it has become a powerful tool of punitive regime. To this day, people remember with horror the blood-curdling screams at fault soldiers coming a military police premises. Eyewitnesses claim that the prisoners to end their suffering, sometimes thrown from the windows of the Main Directorate of the EP building in the center of Yerevan. According to rumors, Gasparyan very willingly personally knocked evidence of guilty.

Employees of the military police came to embody the horror not only for the officers and men, but also for the civilian population. In the late 90’s was a period when the unrestrained bulls, being in a bad mood or drunk, could easily in broad daylight in a crowded area of the city beat to death a passerby who dared to throw them a sidelong glance.

Patrol CAP units used for personal and disassembly of Vova and his entourage. In such cases, having received the “face” of the authorities, some armed with batons two-meter voenpolitsaev quietly, no one embarrassed, went into a particular office, uchinyali defeat, beaten or abducted by the company owner that something prevented Gasparyan, his brother Karen or partners “in business.”

Gasparyan Bureau served a lot of protection and the Kocharyan regime. This special division VI immediately after the execution of the Parliament in 1999, took control of the situation, even after the arrest of its competitors penalty performers Kocharian long time did not admit to the building of the Parliament nor the investigators or journalists. Gasparyan himself in an interview with the newspaper “Haykakan Zhamanak” on the question of the journalist, who still, in his opinion, was the customer of this massacre, cynically replied: “Write down, in response to this question, I just smiled.”

Gasparyan was possible to save the Kocharyan-sargsyansky mode and in March 2008. Then it was his brave guys in the ground and dealt with the rebels on the streets of Yerevan, shooting at unarmed and hurling a grenade at them, “F-1”.

Thief in uniform and kingpin

Corruption in Armenia’s military police when Gasparyan blossomed riotous color. Convinced of his loyalty and indispensability, Kocharian allowed Vovochke so to expand its powers, that for many years all the works with the so-called “evasion of service” and “acquisition war ticket” solved solely by his office.

To his credit, the price of this kind of transaction Gasparyan set quite affordable, not that prices Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Yuri Khachaturov, clean up is now the business to his hands. Slope from service due to illness, received the so-called “ticket rascal ‘worth in his office from $ 500 to $ 1,500, but the number of soldiers in kakoy-libo military unit, never at the same time there visiting, or get a clean military record could have for about $ 4,000. For comparison, today the prices start at $ 1,500 and can go up to $ 10,000.

Incidentally, Gasparyan, unlike many of his colleagues, never lazy to give acquired by the back-breaking labor to capital is the legal basis that would like to find fault, and there is nothing. Elite houses, apartments, shops, restaurants, billiard parlors, saunas, gas stations, security companies and even their armored Humvee “and Gelenvagen former investigator Vova recorded in the name of” successful businessman “, who by chance happened to be his brother Karen Gasparyan.

A large proportion of resources written to the head of his security, well-known crime boss Arshak Hakobyan named Arshak Areshsky. By the way, this is the Arshak too noticeable figure in Armenia. He and his brother Karen are known for their passion “arrows to score”, which often end up with several shootings killed. In Yerevan Aresh district (hence the “Areshsky”) – its controlled territory of a gang of racketeers Arshak there the whole business, starting with small shops and finishing shopping center. Competitors arshakovtsy do not like, and especially not stand on ceremony with them. It was through their efforts, as they say, thrown off the rails by such famous criminal authorities as Aper Kayaransky and Paylak Hayrapetyan. In the record of the Arshak Hakobyan companions and let us make noise shootout March 4, 2015, when near the Nubarashen penal colony were killed by criminal authorities Levon Kazarian, nicknamed Erordmastsi Levick, Drastamat Tadevosyan and Mesrop Nazaryants.

The master will judge all

But let us return to Vova-commander. So, from 1997 to 2010, the former trader Czech tiles and sanitary ware Gasparyan, sparing no effort, led by the RA Military Police. But then he pulled even higher – in 2011 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. The pursuit of Major-General, he got earlier.

But here he ran into a serious bummer second of his career. In general, Vova did not get along with new colleagues, more precisely, not divided profitable areas with the Chief of General Staff Yuri Khachaturov. Already in the first months of cooperation relations between Khachaturov and Gasparyan so strained that it threatened to open war. Naturally, Serjik Sargsyan could not admit that between two such reliable pillars of his regime turned fighting. And the correct situation it was necessary so that none of the parties has not gone mad.

And then as if by chance one after another in the media owned by Mikael Minasyan – Serjik in-law, began to appear loud articles that exposes all sorts of unsavory affairs of the then Chief of Police Alik Sargsyan. He remembered and Artashat prostitutes, whom he appointed the heads of departments in the native police and patronage of Artashat criminals (Alik Sergeyevich was from Artashat), and the construction of luxury villas and protection racket transvestites offering their services in Yerevan Kirov park, and a lot more then. Had all sides obgazhennomu Alik retire in disgrace. Well, his enviable place came “great strategist” Gasparyan received in addition insignia of lieutenant-general

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Such is mnogohodovki Serjik all resolved well not hurt imperious Khachaturov not hurt formidable Vova, and at the same time get rid of do not live up to expectations Alik Sergeyevich. Winners and a favorite child Serjik – Theatre of the opposition: the media launched a duck that, say, a weak Serjik replaced Alik strong Vova to the last in which case it could cope with the coalition released nouveau opposition Gagik Tsarukyan.

Hang with the opposition and the Brazilian

Well, that gained the Armenian Police with the arrival of Vova reformer? Nothing special, except for periodically changing fashions forms of police and perhaps the appearance in the ranks of law enforcement a greater number of elite prostitutes. Much more interesting is how changed, having caught the new post, he Gasparyan.

First of all, do not differ before a special love for the native media space Vova suddenly becomes a star of the screen. By changing the gray camouflage the brilliant costumes in the style of Al Capone and the EP massive shoes to patent-leather shoes, Gasparyan began to arise wherever they could get under the lenses of cameras. Now it is possible to see both the offshore scandal implicated in the notorious archbishop Kchoyanom and with the dancing half naked Brazilian strippers. On the small screen, of course …

Vova even gets itself creatives, by assigning them to his assistants, as well as takes care of several news agencies (slaq.am, nrnak.com, analitik.am). From latter-day “helpers”, two are particularly noteworthy. First – dwarf (literally) Narek Malyan, the son of a priest, who imagines himself the gray eminence of the Armenian press and expert on intellectual game “What? Where? When?”. Malyan – a deeply immoral, apparently, affected systems, often found in people with an external deformity, accident positions of authority. The second “top aide” police chief – Consul of the Kingdom of Belgium to Armenia Grigor Badiryan.

However, most of the public image of the minister is trying to chief editor of slaq.am, and part not much of a PR Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Menua Harutyunyan. It was he who, together with Malianov invents more and more, mostly uncomplicated ways to improve the rating of his master – that Vova gets Man of the Year version of slaq.am, it gives an interview in an informal setting, where the voices pretty extravagant ideas about the interpretation of the Bible (?!) .

However, the favorite scene of opposition rallies are Gasparyan. It is here in all its glory, he reveals his artistic abilities. Here he sits on his haunches with blocked Baghramyan Avenue Theatre young actors of civil society activists and surrounded by dozens of cameras philosophizes about the difficulties of life. But hand in hand with another popular artist – Raffi Hovhannisyan fanatically praying in Tsitsernakaberd (memorial in Yerevan dedicated to the “Armenian genocide” – Ed.). Both figure clearly fans of the ancient Greek theater, where sverhdramatichost encouraged and exaggerated feelings.

Show the tune of crime

It would seem that all this such reprehensible – well, sick people stellar disease, who does not happen. However, the duties of the chief of police does not consist only in intrigues with the opposition or with bare Brazilian. A direct responsibilities our screen star just does not like and, most likely, does not seek to carry out.

And while the police chief of Armenia entertains people in the country almost every week there were killings, shootouts, to come and illuminates in a diverse Kriminale ranking in the international search thieves without any problems. Press as something self-evident calmly writes that in a particular restaurant has a gathering of thieves and with obvious pride emphasizes the names of well-known representatives of this profession, awarded to his visit. MPs from the RPA, as, for example, Mher Sedrakyan and Ashot Aghababyan, journalists admit quietly that are “older brothers” of a crime boss. And while the police chief acts of song and dance show in the country are flourishing trade in drugs and arms, prostitution and trafficking. Everyone knows, everyone talks about it and face it every day, however, as the TV show “The duty of” and the daily “02”, the only crimes committed in Armenia, this small hooliganism and theft, and it is mainly in the areas of countries.

Sometimes, though, something happens out of the ordinary, what Vovochka really can not close my eyes. For example, the firing of a parking space, perpetrated in the center of Yerevan Serzh Sargsyan’s nephew. But then the police chief rescues certain amount of cynicism, and it could easily answer reporters that since no one was killed or even wounded during a firefight, then, consequently, the incident is over. Naturally, no one responsible does not attract much more the son Sashik Sargsyan, as previously no one dared to condemn the sons of Surik Khachatryan, Yuri Khachaturov, Mher Sedrakyan, Nahapet Gevorgyan Unana Poghosyan and other officials offspring, indulge in broad daylight in the center of the capital arms.

As subordinates are not punished Gasparyan, who battered mothers of soldiers killed in the army as a result of hazing as without consequences for themselves Detective make the traditional and acts of sexual violence against detainees. Practically remained unpunished and blasphemous crime police officer raped a 12-year-old girl – after serving a ridiculous 2-year term pedophile was released early, and even re-admitted to the police.

But this is not about the newspapers, TV shows is not – journalists themselves are not the enemy, it is more profitable to inform about the latest antics of eccentric dandy Gasparyan and display on its screen white smile