YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The fundamentally repaired administrative building of Military Prosecutor's Office of Shirak Garrison was put into operation on October 27 in the town of Gyumri. 13m 800 thousand drams had been allocated from the RA state budget to the major repairs that started in May, 2007. RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepian taking part in the solemn ceremony, in his interview to journalists, touched upon the shortcomings revealed during the spring call-up discussed at the sitting of collegium of RA Prosecutor's Office lately. According to him, the shortcomings mainly regarded search for conscripts. Facts of not complete medical examination of conscripts were also revealed. In particular, shortcomings were revealed in the work of the republican medical commission, because of which diseases of many conscripts were discovered already after being called up for military service: they were examined again and were transferred to the reserve. Cases of ungrounded transfers to the reserve were also revealed. Checkings should be held on the above mentioned facts and criminal cases will be instituted in case of existence of necessary bases. The RA Prosecutor General said that there are hundreds of cases when in case of appearing voluntarily persons having evaded call-up become free of criminal responsibility and are called up for military service. 235 criminal cases were quashed and 265m drams (nearly 814 thousand USD) were transferred to the special account of the Defence Ministry by using the law On Citizens not Having Done Compulsory Military Service by Violating the Established Law. And 1bn 600m drams has been transferred to the state budget from the moment of the law's coming into force up to present. The RA Prosecutor General said that the issue on addenda to the law On Compulsory Military Service has been discussed at the Prosecutor's Office, proposals were made, which are expected to contribute to using the law correctly.

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