The issue of the measure of restraint of the former RA Prosecutor General, former Chairman of the RA Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan is being discussed today in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan, chaired by Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan.

The court decided to leave detention as measure of restraint unchanged.

“Reject the motion of the defense to release Aghvan Hovsepyan and apply other measures of restraint including: signature not to leave and/or bail of 50 million AMD, due to being groundless”, said the judge.

Aghvan Hovsepyan’s lawyer Yerem Sargsyan told reporters that Mnatsakan Martirosyan remained unchanged Mnatsakan Martirosyan, as it happens in all cases.

“I understand that he would have been punished if he had released Aghvan Hovsepyan. If a judge thinks that someone should be detained illegally in order for him (the judge) not to be punished, there is a serious problem here. Today we again dealt with injustice, which Mnatsakan Martirosyan did,” the defender said.

“Our objective is to achieve justice in the domestic courts, otherwise we will appeal to the European Court regarding these outrageous illegalities,” he said.

It should be reminded that according to the statement by the Special Investigation Service, the combination of sufficient evidence obtained in the criminal case proves that Aghvan Hovsepyan held the position of 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.

Aghvan Hovsepyan was also charged with money laundering in a particularly large amount, totaling 1,299,404,414 AMD. Aghvan Hovsepyan was arrested on 8 September, 2021.