Davit Sanasarian, the head of an Armenian anti-graft agency facing corruption charges, continued to protest his innocence on Tuesday, accusing “counterrevolutionary” forces of seeking to discredit him.
An indicted brother of former President Serzh Sarkisian has returned to Armenia for further questioning in a criminal investigation conducted by the National Security Service (NSS).
A former senior Armenian official wanted by law-enforcement authorities in Yerevan on corruption charges was reportedly detained in Russia over the weekend.
Law-enforcement officers searched on Thursday the Yerevan house of Mihran Poghosian, a former senior Armenian official prosecuted on corruption charges.
The head of an Armenian government agency tasked with combatting financial irregularities in the public sector on Tuesday pointedly declined to deny reports that he may face corruption charges in an ongoing investigation conducted by the National Security Service (NSS).
An Armenian law-enforcement body has brought corruption charges against a former senior official who resigned in 2016 after being accused of having secret offshore assets exposed by the Panama Papers.
A parliament deputy who was until recently Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian’s chief bodyguard has been convicted of violent assault and sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has refused to launch a formal criminal investigation into allegations to that former President Robert Kocharian rigged a presidential election to come to power in 1998.
Leaders of the opposition minority in Armenia’s parliament questioned on Friday a crackdown on false news reports and social media comments ordered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
An Armenian judge was arrested on Wednesday in what media reports described as a corruption investigation launched by the National Security Service (NSS).
Former President Robert Kocharian continued to challenge his arrest in court on Tuesday, insisting through his lawyers that Armenia’s constitution gives him immunity from prosecution on charges stemming from the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
Manvel Grigorian, a retired Armenian army general arrested in June on a string of criminal charges, was transferred to hospital on Monday just days after appealing to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
A former senior official and lawmaker invited by the Special Investigation Service for questioning as part of a reopened investigation into his alleged secret offshore accounts exposed by the Panama Papers has skipped the interrogation, a spokesperson said on Friday.
A number of human rights activists in Armenia have joined the open letter of Amnesty International calling on the Iranian authorities to release Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.
The chief editor of an Armenian daily newspaper claims the Special Investigation Service (SIS) is putting pressure on the media outlet after criminal proceedings have been launched over its publication of some data that the law-enforcement body says is confidential.
Two activists involved in an attack on a video blogger highly critical of Armenia’s government have been charged with attempted kidnapping, a spokesperson for the country’s Prosecutor-General’s office said on Friday.
An indicted brother of Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian has been allowed to temporarily leave the country after agreeing to pay the state $30 million from his bank account that was frozen last summer.
The Armenian branch of U.S. billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) on Tuesday condemned a violent attack on an Armenian anti-government blogger while strongly denying responsibility for it.
Law-enforcement authorities on Monday pledged to investigate an overnight attack on a video blogger highly critical of Armenia’s government, which was reportedly carried out by a youth group at loggerheads with him.
A parliament deputy who was until recently Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian’s chief bodyguard will go on trial soon on charges of violent assault.
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