At the Recommendation provided by the SJC Decision-25-N -54 and the Presidential Decree of 20 July, 2016, Lilit Tadevosyan was appointed Chairperson of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation for a six-year term.
Before being appointed to this post, Lilit Tadevosyan worked as an investigator, prosecutor, a judge of the Appellate Criminal Court in 2012, and a judge at the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation in 2016.
In 2012, when assuming the office of a judge of the Appellate Criminal Court, Lilit Tadevosyan submitted a declaration on property and income to the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials of Armenia, where she declared:
- An individual house,
- MITSUBISHI PAJERO 3.0 car,
- 19 million 460 thousand AMD,
- 7 million 465 thousand AMD,which was received from 4 salaries.
According to the annual declaration for 2012, Lilit Tadevosyan’s funds increased by 22 million 470 thousand AMD and the income was 5 million 458 thousand AMD, which was received from 5 salaries.
In 2013, the judge made a transaction related to the real estate, which is not mentioned.
Her funds totaled to 27 million AMD. Revenues increased dramatically, and totaled to 26 million 538 thousand AMD, of which 20 million was received from loan and the remaining from 4 salaries.
In 2014, her funds money was again increased and totaled to 32 million AMD. The revenues amounted to 7 million 316 thousand AMD, which was received from 4 salaries.
In 2015, the judge’s savings amounted to 33 million 100 thousand AMD. Her income was 7 million 342 thousand AMD, which was received from 3 salaries.
In 2016, when Lilith Tadevosyan was the judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation, she declared:
- an individual house,
- an apartment,
- funds – 35 million AMD,
- Revenues of 5 million 812 thousand AMD, received from 3 salaries.
By the end of the year 2016 her income slightly increased to 7 million 913 thousand AMD.
In 2017, the judge’s funds totaled to was 36.5 million AMD, and the income was 8 million 889 thousand AMD, which was received from three salaries.
Lilit Tadevosyan has not submitted a declaration when assuming the office of the Chairman of the Court of Cassation.
Lilit Tadevosyan’s husband, Vahagn Grigoryan, has declared:
In 2012, 34 million 200 thousand AMD, and the income of 4 million 702 thousand AMD, which was received from salary.
In 2013, as in the declaration of his spouse, he mentioned a transaction related to the real estate. His funds totaled to 27 million 300 thousand AMD, and the income was 5 million 749 thousand AMD, which was received from salary.
Vahagn Grigoryan’s savings in 2014 amounted to 29.5 million AMD, and revenues from salaries amounted to 6 million 284 thousand AMD.
In 2015, he purchased a garage for 2.5 million AMD, the funds totaled to 31.5 million AMD, and his income was 6 million 306 thousand AMD.
In 2016, his funds totaled to 32 million AMD, and the income was 4 million 867 AMD, which was received from salaries.
In 2017, Grigoryan purchased NISSAN Teana 2.3 car for 2 million AMD. The funds totaled to 33.5 million AMD, the income was 7 million 33 thousand AMD, which was received from two salaries.
Nothing is mentioned in the declarations for 2017of the judge’s children, Davit and Maria Grigoryan’s.
Below is Lilit Tadevosyan’s biography:
She was born in 1978, in Yerevan.
1993 – Graduated from the Russian secondary school # 182 in Yerevan with a gold medal in the same year entered and graduated with honors in 1998 from the Law Faculty of Yerevan State University.
1998 – 2001 Graduated from Postgraduate studies of Yerevan State University.
2001 – YSU Academic Council, received PhD in Law.
1998 – June 2012 – Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Armenia.
12.1998 – 01.1999 – intern-investigator of the Erebuni administrative district prosecutor’s office.
01.1999 – 04.2001 – Investigator of the Erebuni and Nubarashen community prosecutor’s office.
04.2001 – 11.2004 – Senior investigator of the same prosecutor’s office.
11.2004 – 05.2006 – Assistant to the same community prosecutor.
05.2006 – 11.2007 – Prosecutor of the Criminal Investigation Department of the RA Prosecutor General’s Office.
11.2007 -10.2011 – Prosecutor of the Department for Corruption and Organized Crimes of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Armenia.
10.2011 – 30.06.2012 – senior prosecutor of the same department.
She was a member of the Scientific-Methodical Council of the RA General Prosecutor’s Office.
2nd Class Advisor of Justice.
09.2000 – 09.2011 – lecturer at Yerevan State University Law Faculty, and since 2010 up to now, at the Law Faculty of the Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University. She has also lectured at the “Prosecutor’s Office School” SNCO.
2006 – 2010 was a doctoral student of the Moscow State University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
2010 – doctoral thesis. The Scientific Council of the same University and awarded her the degree of Doctor of Law from the Higher Qualification Commission of the Russian Federation.
The diploma of the candidate of juridical sciences has been certified by the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, and the Diploma of Doctor of Law is certified by the Higher Qualification Committee of the Republic of Armenia.
She has participated in many international conferences (Republic of Armenia, Russian Federation, Arab Republic of Egypt, Georgia) and received certificates.
2003 – Training courses at the Center for Organized Crime and Corruption at the St. Petersburg State University, and in 2005, at the St. Petersburg School of Criminal Law and Criminology at the same university, and received relevant certificates.
She is a member of the Professional Council of the Higher Qualification Commission of the Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University, a member of the Scientific Council of Law and Policy Institute of the same University.
Author of over 60 scientific works published in the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, including 5 monographs.
2007 – awarded with “Fridtjof Nansen” Gold Medal, in 2012 – RA Prime Minister’s letter of gratitude.
On 30 June, 2012 by the decree of the RA President she was appointed judge of the RA Criminal Court of Appeals.
By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Armenia on 22 September, 2016 she was appointed Judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation.
At the Recommendation provided by the SJC Decision-25-N -54 and the Presidential Decree of 20 July, 2016, she was appointed Chairperson of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation for a six-year term.
Alisa Chilingaryan
