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Civil Contract will ask court to change preventive measure against head of company and women employees of Economy Ministry
... in the creation of intensive orchards, who did not provide relevant documents and misappropriated the funds. According to the IC, the detained official was in close relations with these persons. Last week, Armenia's Anti-Corruption Court granted the investigator's petition for house arrest as a preventive measure for former Deputy Minister of Economy Ani Ispiryan for 2 months. Ispiryan, 32, was brought in for questioning from her office on the morning of January 31, the day after she was fired by ...
02/06/2024Armenian court orders 2-month house arrest for former deputy economy minister
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Court granted the investigator's petition for house arrest as a preventive measure for former Deputy Minister of Economy Ani Ispiryan for 2 months. YEREVAN, February 2. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Court granted the investigator's petition for house arrest as ...
02/02/2024Armenia's Anti-Corruption Committee reveals corruption related crimes every week
... official forgery, 58 with embezzlement with the use of official position, 3 with legalization of criminal incomes, and 18 with corruption crimes. Khachatryan noted that currently the Committee is investigating 623 criminal cases, 17-18 cases are being investigator by one investigator. According to him, almost every week the Committee reveals new facts of corruption, involving embezzlement of large sums of money. He said the damage caused by the cases which were referred to courts is 13.8 billion drams....
11/02/2023Lilit Grigoryan Appointed as New Yerevan Prosecutor
... General Anna Vardapetyan, the press service of the agency reported. Anna Vardapetyan is also the first woman to serve as Prosecutor General of Armenia. Lilit Grigoryan has been working at prosecutor's office since 1996, first as an intern, then as an investigator, assistant prosecutor, senior prosecutor and from 2013 to 2022 as deputy prosecutor of Yerevan. --0--
11/21/2022Former investigator detained on charges of bribery
... Committee, who worked in the town of Abovyan in Kotayk province, who is suspected of demanding and receiving $40,000 bribe from a defendant’s mother in return for replacing the murder charge with another, softer criminal code article. The NSS said the investigator, identified as S.S. was involved also in another criminal case when he demanded and received a bribe of $500 from a defendant’s father for certain actions in favor of the accused. The NSS said the case was referred to the Anticorruption ...
05/20/2022Large batch of smuggled cellphones worth $600,000 detained in Armenia
... (more than $2000) The batch also included a large number of tablets, e-cigarettes and phone accessories. All the boxes with contraband goods had the same labels. A criminal case was initiated, and the cellphones were confiscated by the decision of the investigator. The SRC said the amount of damage caused to the budget is being specified. A person suspected or accused of the alleged crime is considered innocent until proven guilty according to a court ruling that has come into force in accordance with ...
01/26/2022Ethnic Armenian scientist awarded 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine
... University of California at San Francisco. In 2000, he became an assistant professor at the Scripps Research Institute. Between 2000 and 2014 he had an additional research position for the Novartis Research Foundation. Since 2014 Patapoutian has been an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. -0-
10/04/2021Ara Fidanyan appointed as Armenia’s deputy police chief
... of the country’s police department. The corresponding decree was signed yesterday. Ara Fidanyan was born in Yerevan in 1979. After graduating from the high school of the ministry of internal affairs in April of the same year, he was appointed as an investigator at Yerevan’s Kanaker-Zeytun police department’s unit in charge of juvenile criminals, then a criminal investigator. Over a period between 2003 and 20011 he has held various positions at the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Armenia....
09/02/2020Armenian government nominates candidate for vacant seat in Constitutional Court
... Constitution, "Avetisyan said. Vahram Avetisyan is a Doctor of Science, graduated from Yerevan State University, specializing in private law. In 2015 he received the scientific title of professor. He began his professional career in 1999 as a senior investigator in the Prosecutor General's Office, after defending his candidate's degree in the Russian Federation, he switched to teaching. Since 2002 he has been teaching at the Yerevan State University, working as head of the civil law department, and ...
07/23/2020Prosperous Armenia party and government trade accusations
... saying in a Facebook post that Tsarukyan is simply concerned about the process of investigating several criminal cases involving money laundering, election bribes, tax evasion and corruption. 'If Mr. Tsarukyan believes that his statements will make investigator drop the criminal cases, he is wrong. In Armenia, everyone is equal before the law, also before the law on seizure of illegally acquired property, which may also cause Mr. Tsarukyan's concern," she said. In retaliation, spokeswoman for ...
06/06/2020Armenian judge rejects ex-president's lawyer's request that case prosecutor recuse himself
... during the confrontation between Sargsyan and former minister of agriculture Sergo Karapetyan, whose testimony is believed to have been used to charge Sargsyan with embezzlement of public funds. The lawyer also claims that during the interrogation the investigator would ask directing questions, and the essence of the charge was not fully clarified. The judge set the next session date for March 26. Serzh Sargsyan, who went on trial on February 25, denies the charges as politically motivated. Sargsyan was formally charged last December with coordinating an "embezzlement" scheme worth 489 million drams (more than $1 million) in government funds allocated in 2013 for the provision of subsidized diesel ...
02/26/2020Armenian Special Investigative Service responds to Kostanyan's statement
... discussion. “If during that discussion the law enforcement authorities succeed in presenting at least one evidence justifying the charges against me, I’m ready to bear the full criminal responsibility. After clarifying the date, time, place and format I ... ... defy the summon. As for Kostanyan's readiness to help in disclosing circumstances of the killing of ten people on March 1, the investigator service says he has already have this chance when was summoned as a witness. "However, if he is sincere in ...
02/04/2020Armenia's ex-prosecutor general put on wanted list
... of ten people in 2008 March 1-2 post-election violence within 48 hours to be formally charged, but Kostanyan ignored the summon, which had been issued in accordance with part 1 of Article 203 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to her, the investigator has already filed a petition with the court asking it to allow the arrest of Kostanyan as a preventive measure. Earlier, the head of the SIS Sasun Khachatryan said sanctions may be imposed on the ex-prosecutor general in case of his failure ...
11/28/2019No reason to free ex-Armenian president Kocharyan, office of prosecutor general says
... endowed with functional integrity, to evaluate whether the action or inaction attributed to them arises from their current or previous status or activity or not. Consequently, the issue of the functional integrity of these persons should be decided by the investigator or prosecutor in pre-trial proceedings as part of general criminal procedure regulations, and in court proceedings by the court. " It said the accusation brought against Kocharyan satisfies the additional and preliminary obligatory requirement ...
09/09/2019U.S. Embassy provides financial assistance to Justice Academy of Armenia
... International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Jorgan Andrews and U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Lynne Tracy. The Justice Academy Director Sergey Araqelyan told journalists that this In his words, a room for exams of candidates to judge, prosecutor and investigator positions has been repaired, equipped with technical means and furnished. Answering Novisti Armenia’s question, Araqelyan said that the whole program is estimated to cost $1 million. The embassy’s financial assistance to the academy,...
05/07/2019Head of Armenia’s State Oversight Service charged with corruption
... may face up to four years. With the consent of the prosecutor supervising the legality of the investigation, on April 18 the investigator decided to temporarily terminate Sanasaryan’s authority as head of the State Oversight Service. The decision was ... ... National Security Service (NSS) arrested two officials of the State Oversight Service and the executive of a private company on charges of illegal interference with the public procurement process. According to NSS, the officials abused their power to illegally ...
04/19/2019Tax audit of Arinj Mall comes after several months of operative work
... against the company on the grounds of Article 205 of the Criminal Code (non-payment of taxes, duties or other mandatory payments). Ananyan told journalists today the tax audit of the company was allowed by a local court which acted based on a request of investigator. Asked why the search of the company was done by a group of 40 armed people, Ananyan said the SRC does not determine the number of people to conduct the search. “If a decision were made to provide a thousand people, we could provide them ...
04/11/2019Armenian prime minister appears in court to give testimony
... take into account the testimony he had given immediately after the incident. After appearing in court, Pashinyan told reporters that he had fulfilled his civic duty. “I think that every citizen of Armenia, when he/she receives a notification from the investigator or judge, is obliged to go and see them” said Pashinyan. The Armenian parliament shooting, commonly known in Armenia as October 27, was a terrorist attack on the Armenian National Assembly in the capital Yerevan on October 27, 1999, by ...
04/03/2019New judge to consider Kocharyan’s lawyers’ petition for his release from custody on bail
... judge Nelly Baghdasaryan, who was to consider the petition, had asked to recuse her as judge for that case. According to the lawyers, the consideration of the petition is scheduled for January 14. The judge is also to consider another petition by an investigator of the Special Investigation Service to extend the arrest of the former president for another two months. On December 7 Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld the judgment of a lower court on remanding Robert Kocharyan. Kocharyan, who served ...
01/14/2019SIS to provide additional information about charges brought against former deputy prime minister in coming days
... brought against a former Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorkyan will be published in the coming days. YEREVAN, December 12 /ARKA/. A spokeswoman for Armenia’s Special Investigation Service (SIS), Marina Ohanjanyan, said additional information about charges brought against a former Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorkyan will be published in the coming days. She said an investigator of the Special Investigation Service has asked for a court permission to arrest Gevorkyan. A Yerevan court began considering the request today but then postponed it until December 13. Earlier, Gevorkyan was charged under part 2 of Article ...
12/12/2018Investigators withdraw money, jewelry and gold bars from Ara Minasyan’s deposit boxes
... said today that a preliminary inquiry into the case has found that Are Minasyan and some of his subordinates forged documents from 2016 to September 30, 2017, to embezzle especially large amounts of government funds. Based on a set of evidence, the investigator decided that arrest must be applied to Minasyan on the grounds of clause 1 of part 3 of article 178 (particularly large-scale fraud) and part 2 of article 325 (forgery of documents) of the Armenian Criminal Code. Minasyan has been hiding ...
12/05/2018Former head of investigator group and ballistic expert charged with falsifying evidence on March 1 event
A former head of the investigator group and a ballistic examination specialist are charged with falsification of evidence on the March 1, 2008 bloody events in Yerevan, the press office of the Special Investigation Agency of Armenia reported on Wednesday. YEREVAN, ...
11/01/2018Ex-president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan to be interrogated regarding March 1 case
... YEREVAN, August 16. /ARKA/. Former Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan will be interrogated regarding the March 1 case, Sasun Khachatryan, the head of the Special Investigation Service (SIS), said after the government meeting on Thursday. He said it is the investigator that decides who, when and on what issues to interrogate and the investigator should be allowed to plan his/her activities so that the interrogation is effective. ‘Interrogation is not an end in itself, the goal is to receive certain information,...
08/16/2018Armenian investigator decides to detain retired general’s wife
Armenia’s Special Investigation Service said one of its investigators has decided to detain Nazik Amiryan, the wife of retired general and MP Manvel Grigoryan, however, the day when she will be detained is not clear yet. YEREVAN, June 25. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Special Investigation Service said one of its ...
06/25/2018A man introducing himself as Permaykov’s father expressed his condolences to relatives of killed family in Gyumri
... because he never complained and was pleased with the service ...“said the man. The man expressed willingness to cooperate with the investigation. According to him, he was informed that his son had left the military unit. He said Tuesday morning an investigator accompanied by the district police officer visited them to take testimony. The case is being handled by the State Investigative Committee of Armenia. Novosti-Armenia has an audio recording of the telephone conversation with Pavel Permyakov,...
01/13/2015Armen Nadiryan appointed Armenia’s Special Investigation Service deputy chief
... Justice, 1st class, Armen Nadiryan is appointed a deputy chief of the Special Investigation Service of Armenia. According to the data provided by the Service, the appointment order was made on 21 August. Earlier, Nadiryan held a post as a senior crime investigator at the Service. —0--
08/24/2012Clashes in Yerevan destabilize situation in Armenia
The initiators of the recent clashes in Yerevan planned to destabilize the country’s situation, according to Vahag Harutyunyan, investigator of the RA Special Investigation Service (SIS). YEREVAN, March 12. /ARKA/. The initiators of the recent clashes in Yerevan planned to destabilize the country’s situation, according to Vahag Harutyunyan, investigator of the RA Special ...
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