As precisely described by a Heritage faction member Styopa Safaryan there was a real “money laundering” going on outside the precincts on September 7. He told this the reporter from the A1+. The money laundering was organized by a local government candidate Albert Yeritsyan. “Community elections were very important to understand where the society goes. The elections in Arabkir showed the real profile of our state and society, which is created by the incumbent government. The alerting thing is that 65% of the population doesn’t participate in elections.” “What we had in Arabkir cannot be called anything else but money laundering,” said Safaryan. To the question whether he has any facts that Yeritsyan distributed money Safaryan answered, “It is simple even with an unarmed eye. Albert Yeritsyan’s posters were placed not only in Arabkir community but also in the whole city. By our most modest calculations he spent at least 1 million USD and if we take into account the fact that he bought each vote at 8-30 thousand AMD we have a better understanding of the reality. All this happened in front of the eyes of our statesmen and they were all aware of what’s going on.” To the question of the repairer as whether the people are more intimidated or apathetic Safaryan said, “the incident of the morning, the knife stabbing really made the environment very tense because every resident was thinking that the same can happen in any neighborhood. After this incident people were speaking that such an incident may repeat again and before the elections it was predicted that serious collisions may occur in Arabkir community because both sides belonged to the criminal world. For our team it was senseless to compete with them because the fear, impunity and money won the elections in Arabkir.” “This is one of the details of scenarios of Kocharyan’s return,” he said. “I think that Yeritsyan;s origins have a lot of role to play in this scenario. If Yeritsyan’s posters were placed from Avan community to the airport it means that Mayor Yervand Zakharyan is interested in these elections. It is also important to mention that the powers, which supported Kocharyan in the TEC recede their places to Albert Yeritsyan. This is one of the details of Kocharyan’s return scenario,” said Safaryan.
