Armenian judge caught red-handed

A judge of a Yerevan district court was arrested at the moment of accepting bribe in a special operation launched by the National Security Service (NSS).

Ishkhan Barseghyan, who worked at the Court of First Instance of Yerevan’s Shengavit Administrative District, was seen receiving US $1,000 in an underground passage, the NSS press service reports.

The materials pertaining to the criminal case have been submitted to the General Prosecutor’s Office.