Law-enforcement authorities have dropped corruption and tax evasion charges against the former chief bodyguard of ex-President Serzh Sarkisian nearly four months after he transferred 2.9 billion drams ($6 million) to the state.
A court in Yerevan on Friday refused to throw out corruption charges brought against a senior government official who actively participated in Armenia’s “Velvet Revolution.”
An Armenian law-enforcement has decided not to bring additional criminal charges against Vachagan Ghazarian, the former chief bodyguard of ex-President Serzh Sarkisian.
An Armenian prosecutor has again dismissed coup charges brought by another law-enforcement agency against former parliament speaker Ara Babloyan and one of his former senior aides.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Azerbaijan guilty of brutally torturing an Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani captivity more than nine years ago.
A senior law-enforcement official dismissed on Friday defense lawyers’ claims that corruption charges leveled against former President Serzh Sarkisian are politically motivated.
Citing an alleged death threat, defense lawyers boycotted on Tuesday a court hearing in the trial of the former President Robert Kocharian and three other men prosecuted on coup charges denied by them.
Georgi Kutoyan, a former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) who was found shot dead on Friday, most probably committed suicide, Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian said over the weekend.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has concluded a criminal investigation into former President Serzh Sarkisian, insisting that it had enough evidence to bring corruption charges strongly denied by him.
Lawyers for Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasian insisted on Monday that law-enforcement authorities have brought criminal charges against him in violation of Armenian law.
The Special Investigative Service (SIS) will interrogate Hrayr Tovmasian, the embattled chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, on Friday two months after another law-enforcement agency recommended criminal charges against him.
An Armenian prosecutor has dismissed coup charges brought against former parliament speaker Ara Babloyan and one of his former senior aides by another law-enforcement agency.
A retired senior judge appears to have fled Armenia at the weekend immediately after being charged with bribery.
The director of Armenia’s main maternity hospital and two other officials were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of forcing young women to abandon their babies who were subsequently adopted by foreigners paying bribes.
An opposition leader claimed on Friday that Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian made lucrative concessions to two wealthy individuals previously linked to Armenia’s former leadership in return for their material aid provided to the municipal administration.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency brought on Monday criminal charges against former Prosecutor-General Gevorg Kostanian stemming from security forces’ post-election crackdown on opposition protesters in Yerevan in 2008.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has issued an arrest warrant for a former provincial governor notorious for violent conduct after bringing corruption charges against him.
Judge Vahe Grigorian has urged the Armenian parliament to step in to resolve what he describes as a crisis in the Constitutional Court whose chairman’s legitimacy is disputed by the government.
Law-enforcement authorities brought coup charges against former parliament speaker Ara Babloyan on Monday as part of their investigation into Hrayr Tovmasian’s appointment in March 2018 as chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
The former chief bodyguard of ex-President Serzh Sarkisian and his wife prosecuted on corruption charges have paid the state almost 2.9 billion drams ($6 million) in compensation, investigators said on Friday.
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