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Robert Kocharyan calls attacks on Samvel Karapetyan 'stupid' amid sharp decline in foreign investment
Armenia's ex-president Robert Kocharyan described attacks on the president of Tashir Group Samvel Karapetyan as 'stupid' amid sharp decline in foreign investment.... ... such actions would hinder the family’s ability to recover damages if they lose control. On August 15, the Anti-Corruption Court extended the arrest of Tashir Group President Samvel Karapetyan for another two months. Samvel Karapetyan had previously ...
08/15/2025Former Armenian President Accused of Receiving $3 Million Bribe
... expenses. The Anti-Corruption Committee reported that the former president of Armenia has been charged with accepting a bribe on an especially large scale and that the preliminary investigation into the criminal case against him has been completed. The case materials along with the indictment have been sent to the prosecutor for approval and transfer to court. About the second president of Armenia On March 30, 1998, Robert Kocharyan was elected president of the Republic of Armenia in the early presidential elections. On March 5, 2003, he was re-elected and held this post until 2008. About the third president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan was elected president of the Republic ...
05/23/2025Robert Kocharyan and Family Face Asset Seizure: 22 Properties, Cash, Bonds Targeted by Authorities
... property belonging to the family of the second President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, which the department intends to confiscate in favor of the state. YEREVAN... ... the department intends to confiscate in favor of the state. “The defendants in the case are Robert and Bella Kocharyan, Sedrak Kocharyan and Zaruhi Badalyan, Levon and... ... against Robert Kocharyan and persons affiliated with him is under consideration by the court.
05/12/2025Full report of commission investigating the 44-day war to be presented to Armenia’s National Assembly
... circumstances of the 44-day war (in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 autumn) will be fully disclosed in the National Assembly, Andranik Kocharyan, head of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security, told reporters today. ‘’The report is ready. It has ... ... Kyaramyan, head of the Armenian Investigative Committee, stated that indictments against more than 600 individuals had been sent to court in criminal cases related to the 44-day war in 2020, with the investigation concerning another 100 individuals nearing completion. He added ...
11/11/2024Kocharyan calls his prosecution «legal hooliganism»
... treat, I must say, as it seems to those who cherish it. I didn’t want to go back into politics, but the threats that the country faced forced me to do so," he said. Earlier two first instance courts had discontinued criminal proceedings against Kocharyan. But later the Court of Cassation referred the case to the Anti-Corruption Court for reconsideration on the grounds that the provisions of the Criminal Code had been misinterpreted, and that, in view of the large number of victims, those responsible should be punished. The General Prosecutor’s Office ...
10/11/2024Constitutional Court: former president Kocharyan may have charges against him altered
... President Robert Kocharyan YEREVAN, July 23. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Constitutional Court partially granted the petition of the Cassation Court in a trial against former President Robert Kocharyan, the Lurer website reported on Tuesday. The Cassation Court, addressing the case involving Kocharyan, former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, former Chief of the General Staff, ex-Secretary General of the CSTO Yuri Khachaturov, and former Chief of the Presidential Staff and ex-Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan, requested the Constitutional ...
07/23/2024Armenian Prosecutor General reports 100 lawsuits for about $1.3 billion in cases on confiscation of illegally acquired property
... Public Television Vardapetyan explained that the issue is about the persons who were accused of corruption offenses. She said that the cases also include current corrupt officials, but explained that the law prohibits the provision of information on cases in progress. Answering the question of why the court proceedings involving former President Robert Kocharyan and his affiliates are delayed, Vardapetyan explained that the Anti-Corruption Court was finally formed last year when the system became institutionally ready to investigate such cases. "It is for this reason that the process has only just ...
05/03/2024Court in Yerevan extends for 2 months the arrest of ex-president Kocharyan's son
... /ARKA/. A court in Yerevan has extended for 2 months the arrest of Levon Kocharyan, the son of former President Robert Kocharyan, Levon Kocharyan's lawyer Alexander Kochubayev said in a Facebook post. He said the ruling had been preceded by a 15-hour court session. According to Kochubayev, Judge Masis Melkonyan rejected the defense's demand to recuse himself and declared his impartial attitude towards Levon Kocharyan. According to Kochubaev, the prosecutor overseeing the case said he had no factual data on Levon Kocharyan's improper behavior, but nevertheless he should remain in custody. The lawyer noted that the defense presented its objections and also handed over exclusive information to the court. The son of former ...
10/19/2023Armenian court allows one-month arrest of ex-president's son
A court in Yerevan has allowed law-enforcers to arrest Levon Kocharyan, the son of Armenia's ex-president Robert Kocharyan, for a month, Kocharyan's lawyer Alexander Kochubayev said. YEREVAN, September 25. /ARKA/. A court in Yerevan has allowed law-enforcers to arrest Levon Kocharyan, the son of Armenia's ...
09/25/2023Ex-president Kocharyan faces from 7 to 12 years behind bars if found guilty of accepting bribe from a business lady
... to Robert Kocharyan, Serzh Sargsyan and Armen Gevorgyan (former head of presidential administration) giving them $7 million. Hambardzumyan stated that she that way tried to avoid interference of the authorities in her businesses. In another criminal case involving Robert Kocharyan, a first instance court in Yerevan ruled last April to terminate his criminal prosecution as well as three other defendants under Article 300.1 of the Criminal Code. They all were charged with overthrowing the constitutional order. Late in March 2021 Armenia's Constitutional ...
02/15/2022The leader of National Security Party arrested for false accusations
Garnik Isagulyan, the leader of the National Security Party and former advisor to Armenia's second president Robert Kocharyan, detained on Tuesday, has been arrested for false accusations, the Investigative Committee said today. YEREVAN, Dec.... ... the government. A person suspected or accused of an alleged crime is considered innocent until proven guilty according to a court ruling, which has entered into legal force, according to the procedure prescribed by the Armenian Criminal Procedure Code....
12/22/2021Armenia’s Criminal Court of Appeal allows prosecutors to re-arrest head of Izmirlian medical center
Armenia’s Criminal Court of Appeal on Monday allowed prosecutors to re-arrest the head of Izmirlian medical center Armen Charchyan. YEREVAN, August ... ... June 20 snap parliamentary elections on the ticket of the opposition Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, led by ex-president Robert Kocharyan. He was arrested in June on charges of obstructing the free expression of the will of voters, giving and receiving electoral ...
08/23/2021Pashinyan calls for abandoning rhetoric of hatred and insults
... ready to abandon the rhetoric of hatred and insults. Speaking at a government session Pashinyan referred to the Constitutional Court’s decision that upheld the victory of his Civil Contract party in the June 20 early elections to the National Assembly,... ... control 71 seats in the new 107-member National Assembly. The Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, headed by a former president Robert Kocharyan will control 29 seats and another alliance called Pativ Unem (I Have the Honor), led by Artur Vanetsyan, former chief ...
07/22/2021Yerevan court releases hospital head from custody on 15 million dram bail
A court in Yerevan ruled today that Armen Charchyan, the head of Izmirlyan medical center in the Armenian capital, be released from ... ... June 20 snap parliamentary elections. on the ticket of the opposition Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, led by ex-president Robert Kocharyan. He was arrested about a month ago on charges of obstructing the free expression of the will of voters, giving and receiving ...
07/21/2021Armenian Constitutional Court upholds Pashinyan's party's victory in June 20 elections
After several days of public hearings Armenia’s Constitutional Court has upheld July 17 the victory of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party in the June 20 snap parliamentary ... ... challenging the elections’ results were lodged by opposition groups- the Hayastan (Armenia) alliance led by ex-president Robert Kocharyan, the Pativ Unem (I Have Honor) alliance associated with another ex-president Serzh Sargsyan and two smaller groups that ...
07/18/2021Mayor of Goris arrested for two months
... by an organized group out of hooligan motives. The lawyer said that the arrest decision will be appealed against in a higher court. At the moment, the mayors of the cities of Meghri, Kajaran, Goris, Sisian, as well as the heads of the Karahunj and Vorotan ... ... Federation/ Dashnaktsutyun to run in the June 20 snap parliamentary elections. The alliance formally led by ex-president Robert Kocharyan came in distant second with 21.09 percent of votes. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won almost ...
07/16/2021Former mayor of Meghri arrested on charges of abuse of office
... forgery, and the chief specialist Artavazd Arzumanyan of complicity in abuse of office and forgery. Zakaryan resigned after being elected to parliament in the June 20 snap elections on the ticket of Hayastan alliance, led by former president Robert Kocharyan. Earlier, investigators had asked a court permission to arrest Manvel Paramazyan, the mayor of Kajaran another town in Syunik. A criminal case was also launched against the mayor of Goris Arush Arushanyan, whose lawyers believe that it is a political persecution. According to some reports, 15 cases have been opened against him at once. Also, the head of the Karahunj rural community Lusine ...
07/13/2021Political analyst says another early election possible in Armenia in 12-18 months
Two opposition alliances, led by ex-president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan and former chief of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan will eventually go to parliament, but the political ... ... the National Security Council Artur Vanetsyan as well as two smaller parties groups appealed last Friday to the Constitutional Court contesting the results of the June 20 snap elections to parliament after the Central Election Commission (CEC) refused to ...
07/12/2021Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party to be involved as third party in a case that will consider opposition’s demand to cancel election results
... opposition’s appeal will be presented in the near future. Earlier, the Constitutional Court decided to consider the appeals challenging the outcome of the polls submitted... ... Hayastan and Pativ Unem blocs and the Zartonk and Armenian Motherland parties as one case, since they all relate to the same issue. Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party... ... National Assembly. The Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, headed by a former president Robert Kocharyan will control 29 seats (21.09% of the votes) and another alliance called Pativ...
07/07/2021Opposition Hayastan alliance asks formally Constitutional Court to overturn June 20 elections’ results
The opposition Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, led by ex- president Robert Kocharyan, has lodged today a formal appeal with the country’s Constitutional Court requesting that it overturn the official results of the June 20 early parliamentary elections. YEREVAN, July 2, /ARKA/. The opposition Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, led by ex- president Robert Kocharyan, has lodged today a formal appeal with the ...
07/02/2021Macron: only political settlement of Karabakh conflict can guarantee lasting stability in South Caucasus
... party won almost 54 percent of the vote and will retain a two-thirds majority in the Armenian parliament. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 21 percent, followed by the opposition Pativ Unem alliance led by another ... ... must be represented in the National Assembly. Kocharyan’s bloc said on Monday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. It claimed that the results are “extremely dubious....
06/25/2021Pashinyan describes weekend elections as ‘new standard of democracy’
... party won almost 54 percent of the vote and will retain a two-thirds majority in the Armenian parliament. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 21 percent, followed by the opposition Pativ Unem alliance led by another ... ... must be represented in the National Assembly. Kocharyan’s bloc said on Monday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. It claimed that the results are “extremely dubious....
06/24/2021Vote recount adds hundreds of additional votes to Pashinyan’s party and Kocharyan’s alliance
... 659 additional votes to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's "Civil Contract" party and 744 votes to ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Hayastan alliance. YEREVAN, June 23. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Central Election Commission said a vote recount on June ... ... must be represented in the National Assembly. Kocharyan’s bloc said on Monday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. It claimed that the results are “extremely dubious....
06/24/2021Russia expects the results of Armenian elections to contribute to further strengthening of Russian-Armenian relations
... party won almost 54 percent of the vote and will retain a two-thirds majority in the Armenian parliament. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 21 percent, followed by the opposition Pativ Unem alliance led by another ... ... must be represented in the National Assembly. Kocharyan’s bloc said on Monday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. It claimed that the results are “extremely dubious....
06/23/2021Pativ Unem bloc’s top number to accept parliament mandate
... my team and we will go to parliament too to continue our struggle there," he said to a news conference today. Vanetsyan said even if his bloc refuses to accept the seats, the legislature will continue its activities anyway. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan, whose Hayastan alliance came in distant second, said on Tuesday that the alliance will accept the parliament seats despite their decision to challenge their official results at Constitutional Court. Kocharyan said the alliance’s presence in the National Assembly will make their struggle (against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government) much more intense. According to the Central Election Commission, Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract ...
06/23/2021Ex-president Kocharyan’s alliance accuses government of launching political repressions against opponents
Еhe Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, headed by ex-president Robert Kocharyan, which came in distant second in Sunday’s early parliamentarian elections, accused Tuesday the government of acting ... ... must be represented in the National Assembly. Kocharyan’s bloc said on Monday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. It claimed that the results are “extremely dubious....
06/23/2021France supports Armenia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity
... party won almost 54 percent of the vote and will retain a two-thirds majority in the Armenian parliament. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 21 percent, followed by the opposition Pativ Unem alliance led by another ... ... must be represented in the National Assembly. Kocharyan’s bloc said on Monday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. It claimed that the results are “extremely dubious....
06/23/2021Ex-president Kocharyan warns that the authorities' actions could lead to new early parliamentary elections
Ex-president Robert Kocharyan, whose Hayastan (Armenia) alliance came in distant second in Sunday snap parliamentary elections, warned today that ... ... elections were marred with massive violations, use of administrative resources. He said the bloc will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of the elections. It claimed that the results are “extremely dubious.” “We have serious ...
06/22/2021EU calls on all political forces to now work together tackle Armenia's challenges
... party won almost 54 percent of the vote and will retain a two-thirds majority in the Armenian parliament. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 21 percent, followed by the opposition Pativ Unem alliance led by another ... ... must be represented in the National Assembly. KocharYan’s bloc said on Monday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. It claimed that the results are “extremely dubious....
06/22/2021Pashinyan says political crisis in Armenia over
... party won almost 54 percent of the vote and will retain a two-thirds majority in the Armenian parliament. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 21 percent, followed by the opposition Pativ Unem alliance led by another ... ... must be represented in the National Assembly. KocharYan’s bloc said on Monday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to overturn the official results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. It claimed that the results are “extremely dubious....
06/22/2021Armenia bloc to challenge election results at Constitutional Court
The Armenia bloc, headed by a former president, Robert Kocharyan that came in second with 21 percent of the vote in the early parliamentary elections held on June 20, said on Monday that the results were tainted by fraud and that they will challenge them at the Constitutional Court. YEREVAN, June 21. /ARКА/. The Armenia bloc, headed by a former president, Robert Kocharyan that came in second with 21 percent of the vote in the early parliamentary elections held on June 20, said on Monday that the results were tainted by ...
06/21/2021Arshak Karapetyan appointed as first deputy chief of Armenian army staff
... as his advisor. Karapetyan was appiointed to that post in December 2018 after testifying against ex-Armenian president Robert Kocharyan and other defendants in the March 1, 2008 case. The former First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Tiran Khachatrian was dismissed in February this year after laughing ... ... Pashinyan's claim that only 10% of Russia-supplied Iskander missiles that Armenia used in the conflict exploded. The Administrative Court of Armenia is considering now Tiran Khachatryan's lawsuit against the Minister of Defense. He demands to be reinstated in ...
04/13/2021Ex-president Kocharyan's lawyers file lawsuit against Armenia and prime minister Pashinyan
... as slander, be refuted and presumption of Kocharyan's innocence be admitted. During the March 1 rally Pashinyan stated that Kocharyan's lawyers were using all possible and impossible means to drag out the trial of the ex-president who was accused of ... ... the contest presidential elections. According to Pashinyan, the sole purpose of the lawyers was that the circumstances of the case were not heard by the court so that the truth did not become public. A first instance court in Yerevan chaired by Judge Anna Danibekyan ruled on April ...
04/08/2021Court rules to terminate prosecution of ex-Armenian president Kocharyan
... and invalid article 300.1 of the Criminal Code (overthrow of the constitutional order). The defense of the former president declared the absence of a crime event, the prosecutor's office objected, suggesting that the court appeal to the Constitutional Court to determine the constitutionality of some provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of Armenia in connection with which the re-qualification of the case under another article becomes impossible. Kocharyan’s case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan was declared the winner, angering the opposition, that was led by the first Armenian president Levon ...
04/06/2021Ex-president Kocharyan to contest snap parliamentary elections
... constitutional order” runs counter to articles 78 and 79 of the Constitution. Earlier, Prosecutor Gevorg Baghdasaryan submitted a petition to the court with the request to postpone the hearing until April 6 in connection with the decision of the Constitutional Court. Kocharyan’s case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan was declared the winner, angering the opposition, that was led by the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan ...
04/05/2021Judge presiding over ex-president Kocharyan's trial refuses to terminate criminal prosecution
Judge Anna Danibekyan, who presides over the trial of ex- president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, has refused today to terminate Kocharyan's criminal prosecution under Article ... ... Kocharyan's criminal prosecution under Article 300.1. Last week Armenia's Constitutional Court ruled that Article 300.1 of the Criminal Code that was used to prosecute Kocharyan... ... session, although petitions were received from all the lawyers to terminate the criminal case. "Considering that there are no plaintiffs at the session, the court does...
03/30/2021Constitutional Court recognizes Article 300.1 of Criminal Code, used to try ex-president Robert Kocharyan as inconsistent with Constitution
... court judge David Grigoryan. "It was decided to recognize Article 300.1 of the Criminal Code as contradicting Articles 78 and 79 of the Armenian Constitution and invalid. This decision is final and not subject to appeal," said Constitutional Court chairman Arman Dilanyan, announcing the decision. Kocharyan’s case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan was declared the winner, angering the opposition, that was led by the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan ...
03/26/2021Armenian premier continues story about events during the war in Artsakh
... option with Ter-Petrosyan and Kocharyan. It turned out that the option I proposed was not very interesting to the latter. Bako Sahakyan, unexpectedly for me, announced that Ter-Petrosyan and Kocharian had an agreement to meet with Sergey Lavrov. In that case, what do they want from me? If there is an agreement, let them go to Moscow and meet. It turned out that the problem is in Kocharyan's passport, which is in court. I said, let them file a petition with the court, I will ask that the prosecution does not object to the return of the passport. So what happened. The court returned Kocharyan's passport, but Ter-Petrosyan and Kocharyan never left for Moscow.» ...
11/30/2020Armenia's former president slams government for failing to curb spread of coronavirus
... government for failure to curb the spread of coronavirus in an interview with three Armenian TV companies on July 29. Armenia’s Court of Appeals ordered in June that Robert Kocharyan be released from prison on 2 billion dram bail ($4.2 million) pending the outcome of the ongoing trial. "We have ... ... Azerbaijan) are closed. We have only one checkpoint with Iran. The fourth border is with Georgia, where there is almost no coronavirus cases. Where did all these cases come from in Armenia?" asked Kocharyan. According to him, the closure of the borders is ...
07/30/2020Bright Armenia to file appeal disputing parliament-passed legislative changes to Constitutional Court
... steps are due to political interest in the discussion of the case of ex-president Robert Kocharyan in the Constitutional Court. He said the party for a long time did not respond to these statements and decided to send a statement to the Constitutional Court after the hearing of the Kocharyan case not to be involved in this case. “We started working on the statement, and we will work until the moment the meeting on this case (Robert Kocharyan) ends, after which a statement will be sent to the Constitutional Court related to all these problems ...
06/24/2020Russia-based Armenian businessmen post bail for release of ex-president Kocharyan from pre-trial detention
... independent director since 2009. Viktor Soghomonyan noted that the main shareholder of AFK Sistema Vladimir Yevtushenkov did not personally contribute money; part of the bail was posted by the company as a legal entity. On June 18, Armenia's Criminal Court of Appeal, chaired by judge Arsen Nikoghosyan, endorsed an appeal by ex-president Robert Kocharyan's defense lawyers to release their client on 2 billion dram bail pending the verdict in the case. Robert Kocharyan 65, as well as former chief of staff of Armenia's armed forces Yuri Khachaturov, former defense minister Seyran Ohanyan and the chief of Kocharyan's staff Armen Gevorkyan are charged with toppling constitutional order in 2008 March....
06/21/2020Armenian court of appeal releases ex-president Kocharyan on 2 billion dram bail
Armenia's Criminal Court of Appeal, chaired by judge Arsen Nikoghosyan, has endorsed today an appeal by ex-president Robert Kocharyan's defense lawyers to release their client on a bail pending the verdict in the case. YEREVAN, June 18. /ARKA Armenia's Criminal Court of Appeal, chaired by judge Arsen Nikoghosyan, has endorsed today an appeal by ex-president Robert Kocharyan's defense lawyers to release their client on a bail pending the verdict in the case. Kocharyan will be released on bail in the amount of ...
06/18/2020Armenian political strategist warns about economic collapse
The ongoing trends in the Armenian economy can lead to a collapse, political strategist Karen Kocharyan said at a press conference on Monday. YEREVAN, March 9. /ARKA/. The ongoing trends in the Armenian economy can ... ... citizen of Armenia is not interested in a referendum, which is essentially about removing seven judges of the Constitutional Court from their posts and appointing others, but about where we are moving to," he said. The constitutional referendum is ...
03/09/2020Pashinyan signs decree setting up professional committee for constitutional reforms
... project submission - September 1, 2020. The committee is headed by Yeghishe Kirakosyan, representative of Armenia in the European Court of Human Rights. The committee's other members are Armenian Justice Minister Rustam Badasyan and Armenian Ombudsman Arman ... ... committee members are also Daniel Ioannisyan (The Union of Informed Citizens), Karen Zadoyan (Armenian Lawyers' Association) V. Kocharyan, a member of the Supreme Judicial Council as well as legal experts Anahit Manasyan, Arthur Hambaryan, Armen Mazmanyan,...
02/12/2020Representatives of Human Rights Defender's Office visit owner of 5th TV channel in pre-trial detention center
... a statement on December 19 that they obtained information that supporters of Robert Kocharyan were meeting with the people who were recognized as aggrieved persons and... ... Kanaker neighborhood and asked him to backtrack on his previous testimony and ignore the court hearings in return for the amount, which the government is to provide him. Besides... ... after 'the change of power' in the country. Police said they have launched a criminal case into this episode and also conducted searches to clarify some circumstances. -0-
12/25/2019Supporter of ex-president Kocharyan tried to bribe a citizen in return for backtracking on his previous testimony
... them in return for their refusal of their previous testimonies. In particular, one of Kocharyan’s supporters invited a person recognized as an aggrieved person to an office... ... Kanaker neighborhood and asked him to backtrack on his previous testimony and ignore the court hearings in return for the amount, which the government is to provide him. Besides... ... after 'the change of power' in the country. Police said they have launched a criminal case into this episode and also conducted searches to clarify some circumstances. -0-
12/20/2019Defendant Kocharyan's release motion declined by court
The motion lawyers of Robert Kocharyan, the key defendant at the criminal case on the March 1 bloody events, have filed to have their client released on bail was declined Thursday at a court session. The next session is scheduled for November 12. Earlier, on September 20, Judge Anna Danibekyan declined a similar motion. YEREVAN, November 7. /ARKA/. The motion lawyers of Robert Kocharyan, the key defendant at the criminal case ...
11/07/2019Armenian Constitutional Court members decline parliament's motion without considering it
Members of the Constitutional Court of Armenia declined Monday the National Assembly's motion to strip its chairman Hrayr Tovmasyan of his powers without considering ... ... that has prompted My Step faction MPs to come up with this initiative is Tovmasyan's kinship with one of the lawyers of Robert Kocharyan, a former Armenian president, who is now being prosecuted for toppling constitutional order in the country in 2008. ...
10/15/2019Armenian judge presiding over ex-president's e trial refuses to recuse herself
A low Armenian court judge Anna Danibekyan, presiding over the trial of Armenia’s jailed former president Robert Kocharyan, turned down a motion by Kocharyan's lawyers demanding that she recuse herself. YEREVAN, October 7. /ARKA/. A low ... ... previous judge David Grigoryan was charged with forgery and was suspended by the Supreme Judicial Council in August. Kocharyan's case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh ...
10/07/2019Kocharyan's lawyer files motion demanding judge's self-retreat
... Judge Anna Danibekyan's self-retreat. YEREVAN, October 7. /ARKA/. Hayk Alumyan, one of the lawyers of Robet Kocharyan, a former Armenian president, who is charged with overthrowing constitutional order and taking a big bribe, filed a motion to court demanding Judge Anna Danibekyan's self-retreat. Robert Kocharyan, who has been charged with overthrowing constitutional order (bloody events of March 1, 2008) and taking a big bribe, is now in detention pending trial. The case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan was declared the winner, angering the opposition, led by the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and setting ...
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