ArmInfo.The preliminary investigation into the criminal case initiated on the fact of extortion by a journalist from an officer of the Armenian Police was completed.
According to the RA Investigative Committee, a journalist with many years of experience on June 18, 2019, on his own initiative, visited an official working in the Police and said that he allegedly knew about his entrepreneurial activity and about tax liabilities in the amount of about 41 million drams. The journalist made a demand to transfer 800 thousand drams to him, threatening otherwise to disseminate this information on news websites and thereby discredit him.
The journalist was caught by law enforcement officers after receiving 400 thousand drams from the above- mentioned police officer. He was charged under clause 3.1 of part 2 of article 182 of the RA Criminal Code. The criminal case with the petition for approval of the indictment and forwarding to the court was transferred to the prosecutor supervising the legality of the preliminary investigation.