The arrest of the former Prosecutor General and former Chairman of the Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan, has been appealed to the Court of Appeals. Lawyer Gagik Khachikyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.

It should be reminded that Aghvan Hovsepyan was arrested on 8 September.

The former Chairman of the Investigative Committee is currently in the “Yerevan-Kentron” penitentiary institution of the RA Ministry of Justice.

Earlier, the Special Investigation Service reported 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. On 07.09.2021 A. Hovsepyan was arrested.

Note: A person that is suspected or accused of an alleged crime is considered innocent until his/her guilt is proved by a court judgment that has come into legal effect pursuant to the procedure determined by RA Criminal Procedure Code.