“This is not an ordinary case,” Tigran Atanesyan, the advocate of Gegham Grigoryan in the case of the Head of Judicial department and others began his speech referring to the opinion that the case has a unique character. “I agree that it is unique but it is unique due to the absence of legal content, outrageous charges and gaps of evidence base. This is not an ordinary criminal case, this is a criminal case where the prosecution abuses the formal aspect and literally attacks the independence of judiciary of the RA. The main objective here is violation of the constitutional functions of the judiciary. Thes are not high words,” he said.
He brought some of the testimonies as reasoning, according to which, the body conducting the procedure, on behalf of the prosecutor offered to testify against Arman Mkrtumyan, the Head of the Cassation Court of the RA. “Just this fact alone is enough to launch a criminal case. I do not remember such an obvious attack in the history of the Republic of Armenia. The fate of people was not taken into consideration or was not important while making this attack,” Said the advocate in his speech referring to his client Gegham Grigoryan’s fate.
The name of this defendant is often mentioned in the preliminary investigation testimonies of 80 witnesses. They argued that they had to deal with Gegham Grigorian for being accepted to job at the judicial department. They handed over the documents on his advice, received the bank cards, but did not go to work, and after some time wrote resignations letter.
“The witnesses came to the court, they did not recognize my client, and they looked at me because they had changed places. My client had become a hunter of dead souls in the corridors, not a single evidence was examined, nothing was a spirit haunting the corridors of the dead, no evidence has been examined, nothing was investigated, nothing was considered, and we went forward as the indictment was prepared,” the defendant’s advocate said today at the Court of general Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork Marash Administrative Districts.
Then he referd to the fact that Gegham Grigoryan was out of Armenia. “The heads of the subdivisions seeing that Gegham Grigoryan was not in Armenia provided such testimonies that were simply funny. Gegham Grigoryan did not need to leave a comfortable life in Russia, come to the homeland and appear in the clutches of native justice, to say something that would be contrary to everyone. He clearly pointed to all the circumstances, and provided the real picture,” Tigran Atanesyan said in his speech.
The lawyer asked to justify his client in all charges. If, however, the court would find that Gegham Grigoryan was guilty on one of the articles, then to take into account that all injuries were fully recovered, Gegham Grigoryan voluntarily surrendered to the investigating authority, he has to care of his mother and two children, and he participated in the Artsakh defense battles as well. So in case of the verdict with such outcome, the lawyer asked was sentence Gegham Grigoryan to the minimum penalty and to apply the amnesty act of 2013 and release him from serving the sentence.
Gevorg Tosunyan
