According to the verdict of 27 March, 2023, A.H. was found guilty of having assisted the former Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer, M.P. using, in a wasteful manner, the embezzlement of someone else’s particularly large property of 5 million 712 thousand 550 AMD (during the preliminary investigation of the criminal case (proceedings), A.H. recovered a part of the damage caused, 2 million 985 thousand AMD).

The General Prosecutor’s Office reported.

On 20 December, 2020, the criminal proceedings were sent to the court with an indictment. According to the court’s verdict of 27 March, 2023, A.H. was found guilty of committing the crime provided for in Article 38-179, Part 3, Clause 1 of the Criminal Code (assistance in particularly large-scale theft by means of waste) and his was sentenced to 4 years in prison. In accordance with Article 2, Part 1, Clause 1 of the RA Law “On Proclaiming Amnesty in Criminal Cases in Connection with the 2800th Anniversary of the Founding of Erebuni-Yerevan and the 100th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the First Republic of Armenia” adopted on 1 November, 2018, A.H. was released from the imposed punishment. With the same verdict, the claim of the prosecutor regarding the recovery of the uncompensated part of the damage, 2 million 727 thousand 550 AMD, was also satisfied.

Taking into account the requirement of respect for the authority and independence of the judge and judicial authority of Article 9, Part 7 of the RA Constitutional Law “On the Constitutional Court”, confidentiality was ensured during the mentioned criminal proceedings, which is why the public was not informed that the criminal proceedings also concerned the Former Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, currently Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia H.T. However, bearing in mind that in the aforementioned proceedings, a final decision was made against the judge of the Constitutional Court to prosecute on a non-rehabilitative basis (there was no criminal prosecution against him on the basis of the expiration of the statute of limitations, the jurisdiction of which was also confirmed by the Court of the First Instance and the Court of Appeals), we inform that it was considered confirmed by the mentioned decision, that H.T., being the RA Minister of Justice and having been informed from 16 July, 2013, that A.H. was to be appointed to a position by M.P. due to his personal interest in not depriving A.H. of the opportunity to gain work experience, to pay A.H. a higher salary, to gain work experience, he did not take measures to prevent A.H. from not fulfilling the duties arising from his position. Moreover, on 13 July, 2013, H.T. signed order No. 158-A, according to which A.H., the first-class consultant of the information technology implementation and system automation department of the Compulsory Enforcement Service of the RA Ministry of Justice, the first-class specialist of the operative department of the same service, who was actually the minister’s driver was provided a personal service weapon.