Presidential office confirms scandal involving Yerevan's mayor

Presidential spokesperson has confirmed the scandal involving Yerevan's mayor.

Speaking to Tert.am Armen Arzumanyan confirmed the reports that there have been problems between Yerevan's Mayor Gagik

Beglaryan and Aram Kandayan, an employee of the Department of Protocol at the presidential office.

"Yes, unfortunately, there has been such incident. Of course, the press has been exaggerative in its description of the events. There has been no kidnapping, nor has been any beating. There has, however, been such an incident," Arzumanyan told Tert.am.

Earlier, the Armenia press reported that Gagik Beglaryan had kidnapped Aram Kandayan and beaten him severely simply because the latter had asked Beglaryan's wife to move to another place at the concert by Placido Domingo in Yerevan's Karen Demirchyan Complex last week, so that not to be sitting immediately next to the president .

According to protocol procedures, only two persons are allowed to sit next to the president - the Chairman of Armenia's National Assembly and the Armenian Catholicos.