FORMER CONSUL SAYS HE IS NOT GUILTY
Former Armenian Consul in Los Angeles Norayr Ghalumyan, who was arrested in the U.S, did not assume his guilt.
The former consul and four others are charged with providing false documents to immigrants. It is said that Ghalumyan and the others are charged with selling letters to immigrants who are subject to deportation in which it is stated that Armenia will not grant travel documents to them. The letters were confiscated so that the U.S. government can send the immigrants back to Armenia.
Note that four others charged together with Ghalumyan did not assume their guilt either. Ghalumyan was the Armenian Consul in 1999-2003. He has been arrested in summer of 2009.