Wednesday, December 18 2019 16:55

ArmInfo. Director of the Republic institute of reproductive health, perinatology, obstetrics and gynecology Razmik Abrahamyan was detained. The Investigative  Committee confirms this information.

Abrahamyan is suspected of illegally separating the child from the  parents by prior conspiracy with a group of persons.

As previously reported, the National Security Service of the Republic  of Armenia revealed gross violations of Armenian legislation when  children were adopted by foreigners in Armenia. Thus, evidence was  obtained that two citizens of the Republic of Armenia, using their  contacts in one of the republican obstetric institutions, in a number  of departments of the Republic of Armenia, as well as in orphanages,  with a gross violation of the legislation of Armenia, organized the  process of adoption of more than 30 Armenian children by Italian  citizens.

To this end, a number of obstetric institution employees and other  employees endowed with managerial powers, by prior conspiracy,  intentionally and for personal gain, from 2016 to 2018, forced them  to abandon the children and against their will give consent to adopt  more than 10 women who have come to the maternity clinic for an  abortion due to social or personal problems, threatening to make  their pregnancy public, exaggerating the illness of the child and  providing false information in order to exert psychological pressure  at the same time, in some cases they did not disdain to demand bribes  from women in labor for the medical services rendered.

Having written documents on abandonment of children, the majority of  infants with appropriate medical diagnoses were sent to orphanages.

A criminal case was opened; an investigation is underway.   We add that Razmik Abrahamyan is also undergoing a criminal case on  giving a bribe to  former Deputy Minister of Healthcare of the  Republic of Armenia Arsen Davtyan.