“WHY IS MY NAME KAREN?”

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The October 19 Echmiazin district head elections haven’t kicked off, yet there are already a number of registered electoral fraud cases. People who have nothing to do with politics are being forced to run in the elections and are under prosecution. This mainly concerns Karen Grigoryan who works at Hakob Hakobyan’s gas station. Why is Karen under prosecution? The answer is simple: he is the son of general Manvel Grigoryan and the son of a general is running in the Echmiazin district head elections. Recently, there was a press article according to which Karen Grigoryan was kidnapped by the command of General Manvel Grigoryan.

“How can I tell them that he wasn’t kidnapped so that they will understand?” told “A1+” the mother of Karen Grigoryan Susanna Hambartsumyan. She also informed that it all began when there was a rumor flying around that Karen was going to run for Echmiazin district head. “I personally called our family friend Artur and asked him to take Karen and his wife out of town for a couple of days. At the time my son didn’t even know that I was the one who organized that. I had informed the investigators as well,” said Mrs. Susanna. Hakob Hakobyan knew that Karen had escaped and took him to the police as soon as he came back to Echmiazin. “My son didn’t come back until late night. I called him and he told me that they had taken him to the police station for investigation,” said Mrs. Susanna crying. The next day the investigators came to the house, prosecuted him and took Karen to the Yerevan investigation division. It is still unclear as to how it will all end. “My son was so terrified by all of the investigations that he kept on asking me why I had named him Karen,” said Mrs. Susanna crying.

The Echmiazin district head election campaign will officially kick off on September 30 and the elections will be held on October 19.