Three of the four individuals arrested on August 26 as part of the investigation into the August 14 fire and explosion that killed sixteen at Yerevan’s Surmalu Market, have been detained.
Chalabyan, arrested on May 14, had been released from custody because his detention term had expired and was not extended.
Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) wants to have access to individual and corporate bank accounts without a court order, arguing that bank account holders often refuse to provide such information to tax authorities.
A Yerevan court today sentenced former Armenian MP Levon Sargsyan (aka Flourmill Lyovik) to nine years on charges of ordering and heading a robbery of the house of former State Customs Committee head Armen Avetisyan fourteen years ago.
Vardanyan has been charged with obstructing the work of a journalist covering the protests in Yerevan on November 10, 2020, following the publication of the ceasefire agreement that ended the Karabakh war.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has filed a motion to detain ARF member Gerasim Vardanyan who has been charged with obstructing the work of a journalist covering the protests in Yerevan on November 10, 2020 following the publication of the
Today, at noon, protesters gathered in Yerevan’s French Square, announcing that they intend to paralyze traffic in the capital
A Yerevan court today decided to keep former Armenian Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, arrested in September 2021 on embezzlement, bribery and money laundering charges, in pre-trial detention.
An Armenian police officer arrested in connection with an April 26 road accident that killed a pregnant woman while she was crossing a street in downtown Yerevan has been released on his own recognizance.
Armenia’s Court of Cassation recently overturned a 2010 verdict that found Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan guilty of organizing mass riots in Yerevan following the 2008 presidential election.
Armenian Minister of Emergency Situations Andranik Piloyan was arrested today following a raid by law enforcement officers of his office related to an ongoing corruption investigation.
Armenian Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan has filed an appeal to overturn a 2010 court verdict that found Nikol Pashinyan guilty of organizing mass riots in Yerevan in March 2008 following the presidential election officially won by Serzh Sargsyan.
The defendants include businessman David Galstyan, who owns several firms that have supplied weapons and ammunition to the military for years, and former Chief of Military Aviation Avetik Muradyan.
The case involving former Armenian Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan (photo) and arms dealer Davit Galstyan, accused of fraud and embezzlement in a criminal probe regarding the supply of defective ammunition to the country’s military, has been sent to a
Minasyan was arrested in Yerevan on December 1 of this year and charged with conspiring to assassinate Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and seize state power.
Hetq law enforcement sources say six of the ten Armenian soldiers that Azerbaijan returned on December 4 have been criminally charged with “dereliction of duty.”
Sisian volunteer unit commander Ashot Minasyan, charged with conspiring to assassinate Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and seize state power, was arrested today in Yerevan.
Tonoyan was arrested on September 30 as part of a criminal probe regarding the supply of defective ammunition to the country’s military.
Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan appeared before the country’s Anti-Corruption Committee today after being charged with bribery in a case that started three years ago.
Former Armenian Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, arrested yesterday on several corruption charges, will be detained for two months prior to his trial.
The Police Press Service confirmed the information, only mentioning that the lack of passports was due to the coronavirus. The Service promised to release further news later.
Armen Charchyan, a prominent surgeon who ran for parliament in Armenia's snap June 20 election on the Hayastan (Armenia) Alliance ballot, was released today on 15 million drams ($30,760) bail a month after being arrested on charges of pressuring subo
Manukyan, one of the leaders of the Homeland Salvation Movement (HSM), is charged with making such calls at public rallies in Yerevan during February and March.
Arushanyan is charged with offering bribes to two people to get them to vote in favor of the Hayastan (Armenia) bloc in June’s snap parliamentary election.
Yerevan’s Court of General Jurisdiction today sentenced former Armenian Deputy Health Minister Arsen Davtyan to seven years imprisonment and Razmik Abrahamyan, Director of the Republican Institute of Reproductive Health, Perinatology, Obstetrics and
A Yerevan court has released Vardan Sedrakyan, convicted of the 2013 attempted murder of politician Paruyr Hayrikyan, on parole.
Former Yerevan Mayor Gagik Beglaryan, who fled Armenia last year after the National Security Service issued a warrant for his arrest for his involvement in a scheme to seize a Yerevan kindergarten in 2009 worth 233.5 million drams, arrived in Armenia
Armenia’s Criminal Appeals Court today decided to release Davit Galstyan, an advisor to former Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan, from pre-trial detention on charges of defrauding the defense ministry by supplying the Armenian military with poor-qual
An Armenian court today sentenced two Syrian mercenaries, captured by the Artsakh Defense Army during last year’s Karabakh war and charged with war crimes, to life imprisonment.
Yerevan’s Court of General Jurisdiction today released Armen Khachatryan, Mayor of the Syunik village of Hartashen, who had been arrested on charges of “hooliganism” during PM Nikol Pashinyan’s recent trip to the province.
The case of Yousouf Alaabet al-Haji, and Muhrab Mohammad Al Shkher, two Syrian mercenaries captured by the Artsakh Defense Army during last year’s Karabakh war, has been sent to the Syunik Provincial Court of First Instance for adjudication.
Former Armenian Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan, charged on several counts in connection with the March 1, 2008 case, will remain in pre-trial detention.
Kocharyan’s trial on bribery charges will continue. So too will the money laundering and bribery trial of Armen Gevorgyan.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court today ruled that the criminal case against former President Robert Kocharyan, charged with the overthrowing of constitutional order during the post-election protests in Yerevan on March 1-2, 2008, must be dropped becaus
Yerevan’s Court of General Jurisdiction today rejected a motion filed by former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s lawyers to lift a freeze placed on their client’s assets.
Lawyers for former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, charged with masterminding the embezzlement of 489 million drams (just over $1 million) in 2013 from a state-sponsored diesel fuel assistance program, filed a court motion today to have a freeze p
Armenia’s Criminal Appeals Court today upheld a lower court’s decision to keep Vahagn Vermishyan, former Chairman of the Urban Development Committee, in pre-detention.
The court terminated the criminal prosecution against Arayik Khandoyan, who died during the examination of the case.
A Yerevan court today denied bail to two individuals charged with illegally entering the Government Building in Yerevan on November 10.
The ECHR stated that the two key testimonies against Dadayan could not be used as a basis for his guilty verdict and ordered Armenia to pay €3,400 in compensation to Dadayan.
World boxing champion Israyel Hakobkokhyan, one of the five individuals arrested at a January 28 anti-Pashinyan protest in Yerevan, was rushed to hospital today after suffering a heart attack.
Yerevan’s Court of General Jurisdiction today court rejected a motion filed by the Investigative Committee to detain world champion boxer Israyel Hakobkokhyan, one of the five individuals arrested at a January 28 anti-Pashinyan protest outside
A Yerevan court today rejected a motion filed by the Investigative Committee to detain Arshak Zakaryan, one of the five individuals arrested at a January 28 anti-Pashinyan protest outside the Government Building in Yerevan.
A Yerevan court today found that yesterday’s arrest of Vahagn Chakhalyan, one of the five individuals at an anti-Pashinyan outside the Government Building in Yerevan, was illegal and rejected a motion to detain him.
Five individuals in Armenia have been arrested on charges of attempting to seize the Government Building in Yerevan.
When asked by a reporter about how to remove him, Badasyan answered that there are various ways, even physical removal.
Markosyan’s son, Gnel Tosyan, is one of the four military cadets accused of murdering fellow cadet Haykaz Barseghyan in January 2015.
Balyan believes that, one year on, the Armenian public and government, including the courts, have come to grips with living with the virus and have made the necessary modifications.
As of 1pm local time, Yerevan police have detained 69 demonstrators gathered outside the Government Building calling for the resignation of Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan.