Citizens protest against notaries public
A group of Yerevan citizens complains of notary services pointing out to numerous cases of forgery. The group is going to file an action against notary offices.
The citizens argue that the fake transactions concluded by notaries have deprived them of property.
Janna Manukyan, Chairwoman of the Women of the Armenian Land Party, says they have united people who have suffered losses from the activity of Kentron district notary Emma Shaboyan. Already 6-7 people have applied to Janna Manukyan for help. The latter claims that Shaboyan has taken huge bribes and concluded fake transactions notarizing wills, endowments, etc.
Mrs. Manukyan considers herself one of Shaboyan's "victims." In 2001, after issuing a fake certificate of property, the notary transferred Manukyan's house with a garden of 480 square meters in the name of a former tenant of Georgian orogin. Shaboyan did not even register the transaction.
Aghasi and Tigran Hambardzumyans, residents of Nor Aresh street, have also been "trapped by" notary Emma Shaboyan who helped their aunt Sonya Tovmasyan make a fake will and thus become the owner of their family house. Discovering the reality, the brothers applied to law-enforcement bodies and filed an action against the notary and their aunt but the case was soon discontinued for lack of evidence.
The notary refrained from speaking on the case and advised applying to Tigran Khurshudyan who turned out to be the lawyer of Sonya Tovmasyan. Khurshudyan said the charged against Mrs. Tovmasyan were trumped up and ungrounded. He also dispelled the rumours about the fake will saying everything was done by law and the brothers simply wanted to create a scandal.
"When people accuse someone of bribery without submitting relevant grounds, it means they are slandering the person. All charges should be substantiated by legal acts and not by words," said the lawyer.
