Former deputy head of Armenian parliament's staff taken into police custody on suspicion of forging official papers

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Arsen Babayan, a former deputy head of the Armenian National Assembly's staff, was taken into police custody Monday night over the state power seizure criminal case, the press office of the Special Investigative Service of Armenia reports.

Former deputy head of Armenian parliament's staff taken into police custody on suspicion of forging official papers

YEREVAN, October 22. /ARKA/. Arsen Babayan, a former deputy head of the Armenian National Assembly's staff, was taken into police custody Monday night over the state power seizure criminal case, the press office of the Special Investigative Service of Armenia reports.

According to the evidence obtained by investigators, some officials, guided by their cliquish interests, personally and also with the help of persons who didn't hold any official position, forged official documents in 2018 in the process of termination of the then Constitutional Court head, Gagik Harutyunyan's powers.

Taking into account that a fact of a new crime has been found, the Special Investigative Service opened a new criminal case, which was consolidated into a singled case with a power seizure case opened earlier.

The preliminary investigation is under way now. -0---

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