A controversial brother of Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian has been formally charged with fraud, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
An Armenian businesswoman acknowledged on Wednesday that a corruption accusation leveled against the arrested former President Robert Kocharian stems from her incriminating testimony.
Robert Kocharian, a former Armenian president arrested in December on coup charges, has also been accused of corruption, it emerged on Tuesday.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has launched a new criminal investigation into a former senior official who resigned in 2016 after being accused of having secret offshore accounts exposed by the Panama Papers.
The Armenian ministers of defense, finance and foreign affairs as well as eight other members of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s cabinet have been formally reappointed to their posts.
A law-enforcement body on Thursday asked a Yerevan court to issue an arrest warrant for Armenia’s former Environment Minister Aram Harutiunian after formally accusing him of receiving $14 million in bribes.
Former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian has also been indicted in connection with the deadly breakup of opposition protests staged in Yerevan in 2008, a senior prosecutor confirmed on Monday.
A former senior Armenian law-enforcement official dismissed on Thursday additional charges brought against him over his handling of a criminal investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
A prominent Armenian businessman prosecuted on corruption charges has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after law-enforcement authorities in Yerevan refused to allow him to undergo medical treatment abroad.
Armenian prosecutors have formally asked authorities in the Czech Republic to extradite a fugitive nephew of former President Serzh Sarkisian accused of illegal arms possession and drug trafficking.
A court in Yerevan on Friday postponed until January 9 its decision on whether to grant bail to former President Robert Kocharian arrested this month for his role in the deadly breakup of 2008 opposition protests.
Former President Robert Kocharian has appealed to Armenia’s Court of Cassation to release him from custody pending investigation into his role in the deadly breakup of 2008 opposition protests in Yerevan.
Russia has officially confirmed that a former Armenian defense minister wanted by Yerevan on coup charges is a Russian citizen, an Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Tuesday.
A court in Yerevan on Friday ordered the release from pre-trial custody of Manvel Grigorian, a retired army general prosecuted on corruption charges.
The former chief of the Armenian police, Vladimir Gasparian, could be prosecuted for illegally campaigning for the ruling Republican Party (HHK) ahead of parliamentary elections held in 2012, law-enforcement authorities said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals has annulled an arrest warrant against a senior law-enforcement official who led a criminal investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan during former President Serzh Sarkisian’s rule.
A court in Yerevan on Wednesday allowed investigators to keep Manvel Grigorian, a retired army general prosecuted on corruption charges, under arrest for two more months.
Shant Harutiunian, a veteran Armenian political activist espousing nationalist views, has been released from prison under an amnesty law five years after being arrested for leading an anti-government street protest.
Ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have dismissed a possible offer from Azerbaijan to exchange prisoners of war and detainees held by both sides according to an “all-for-all” scheme.
Yuri Khachaturov, who headed the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) as part of Armenia’s rotating presidency in the organization, has been relieved of his duties.
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