YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. On July 20, the employees of the 6th Department on Struggle with Organized Crime of RA Police confiscated the equipment, as well as a batch of licensed cassettes of well-known singers (Aramo, Emma Petrosian, Artur Ispirian, Nune Yesayan, Michael Kotanjian and others) from the recording studio of the Reco-Records company, after which a large batch of forged audiocassettes with a tasteless design appeared on the market. Singers Aramo, Artur Ispirian, writer Vahram Sahakian and actor Hrant Tokhatian declared this during the meeting at the Azdak (Stimulus) club. In their affirmation, this forged production appeared on the market with the assistance of some employees of the 6th Department. And under these conditions, according to them, the motivations of law-enforcement bodies that the actions aimed against Reco-Records, including confiscation of original videocassettes were carried out "in the interests" of the executors are ungrounded. V.Sahakian is sure that all this was organized by some officials of police, which have a "roof" or work by the principle of "godfather and brother." He mentioned that they are going to meet with the country's president and present some documents and video recordings proving this. In the affirmation of the art workers, their copyright has been violated for many years and they aren't protected by the law. "We want a state producer organization to be created, which will be engaged in production of singers' cassettes and we will work with it. Moreover, we are ready to pay all state taxes, we only need to specify them," they mentioned. In H.Tokhatian's estimation, "first of all they need to specify the tax field, to determine the price policy and to create a structure, which will control this sphere."

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