Former Chairman of the Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan has been arrested. Hovsepyan’s lawyer Gagik Khachikyan’s statement states ․

“Aghvan Hovsepyan was born in Aparan. He inherited the will to fight with blood. No one should think that he will be depressed. On the contrary, very soon some characters will feel the backlash on their skin.

“As for the “arrest decree”(it is not appropriate to call it a decision), it will be appealed in all possible ways,” he wrote.

Earlier, the RA Special Investigation Service informed that Aghvan Hovsepyan, who held the post of the RA Prosecutor General from 18 March, 2004 to 13 September, 2013, and the post of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee from 18 July, 2014 to 11 June, 2018, in the mentioned period he actually participated in the management of a number of LLCs carrying out business activities, in addition he received a particularly large bribe of 190,000,000 AMD, and fraudulently committed theft of property in a particularly large amount of 800,000,000 AMD. A. Hovsepyan was also charged with money laundering in a particularly large amount, totaling 1,299,404,414 AMD.

Aghvan Hovsepyan was charged with committing the above-mentioned criminal acts under Article 310, Article 311, Part 4, Clause 2, Article 178, Part 3, Clause 1, Article 190, Part 3, Clause 1 (3 episodes) of the RA Criminal Code.