Romanian claims release from Armenian jail for bribes
YEREVAN– A Romanian citizen charged with credit card fraud in Armenia has said he had been released from jail after paying a bribe.
Oliver Raduku Marian was detained by the Armenian secret service in August 2008. He was arrested along with several other people on charges of stealing large amounts of money from ATMs by using forged plastic cards.
The local Aykakan Jamanak newspaper reported that Marian headed a criminal group. However, an Armenian court had sentenced him to only two years in prison. Having served 14 months of his sentence, Marian was released and left Armenia.
A man named Konstantin Stengachu, one of Marian’s accomplices, was handed down a 12-year jail sentence and is still held in a local prison.
Marian wrote in a letter to President Serzh Sargsyan that he had paid a total of 50,000 euros and $20,000 to the national security ministry’s investigator, his boss, the prosecutor and the judge. The law enforcement officers who received the bribes laid the blame for the crimes on Stengachu instead. Marian admitted his guilt in his letter, saying that Stengachu had been jailed unfairly.
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