Manvel Grigoryan to be taken into custody again pending trial
22.01.2019,
15:32
Armenia’s Court of Appeals had ruled today that a former MP Manvel Grigoryan be taken into custody again pending trial, according to aysor.am.
YEREVAN, January 22. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Court of Appeals had ruled today that a former MP Manvel Grigoryan be taken into custody again pending trial, according to aysor.am. The judge who chaired the court session is Arsen Nikoghosyan.
On June 19, 2018 the Armenian parliament voted to allow law-enforcement authorities to prosecute Manvel Grigoryan, elected on the ticket of the Republican Party of Armenia in 2017. The voting followed a request from the Prosecutor-General Artur Davtyan to strip Grigoryan of his parliamentary immunity.
Manvel Grigoryan was detained by the National Security Service in his hometown of Etchmiadzin on June 16 after security forces raided his homes in Etchmiadzin and a nearby village finding illegally acquired weapons and stockpiles of food and other supplies, including anti-tank guns and rocket-propelled grenades, meant for the armed forces.
According to the Prosecutor-General, Manvel Grigoryan not only illegally acquired in collusion with a number of persons, and illegally kept weapons and ammunition, but also committed embezzlement in especially large amounts.
According to the Prosecutor-General, security officers found also 71 million drams, $80 thousand, 67 thousand euros and 246 thousand Ukrainian hryvnias at Grigoryan’s properties. Also they found expensive cars, including military vehicles, and also parcels collected by Armenian children for the army in the wake of the 2016 April four-day war.
According to the Prosecutor General, Grigoryan committed acts of embezzlement in collusion with his wife, daughter and a number of other persons.
A court in Yerevan in early December ordered the release of Grigoryan from pre-trial custody on a 25 million-dram ($52,000) bail.
On December 24, the Prosecutor General's Office lodged a complaint to the Court of Appeals against the decision on the release of Grigoryan. -0-
On June 19, 2018 the Armenian parliament voted to allow law-enforcement authorities to prosecute Manvel Grigoryan, elected on the ticket of the Republican Party of Armenia in 2017. The voting followed a request from the Prosecutor-General Artur Davtyan to strip Grigoryan of his parliamentary immunity.
Manvel Grigoryan was detained by the National Security Service in his hometown of Etchmiadzin on June 16 after security forces raided his homes in Etchmiadzin and a nearby village finding illegally acquired weapons and stockpiles of food and other supplies, including anti-tank guns and rocket-propelled grenades, meant for the armed forces.
According to the Prosecutor-General, Manvel Grigoryan not only illegally acquired in collusion with a number of persons, and illegally kept weapons and ammunition, but also committed embezzlement in especially large amounts.
According to the Prosecutor-General, security officers found also 71 million drams, $80 thousand, 67 thousand euros and 246 thousand Ukrainian hryvnias at Grigoryan’s properties. Also they found expensive cars, including military vehicles, and also parcels collected by Armenian children for the army in the wake of the 2016 April four-day war.
According to the Prosecutor General, Grigoryan committed acts of embezzlement in collusion with his wife, daughter and a number of other persons.
A court in Yerevan in early December ordered the release of Grigoryan from pre-trial custody on a 25 million-dram ($52,000) bail.
On December 24, the Prosecutor General's Office lodged a complaint to the Court of Appeals against the decision on the release of Grigoryan. -0-
