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Armenia attorney general’s office not to appeal overturning of custody decision on Investigative Committee ex-official

News.am, Armenia
Dec 26 2018
Armenia attorney general’s office not to appeal overturning of custody decision on Investigative Committee ex-official Armenia attorney general’s office not to appeal overturning of custody decision on Investigative Committee ex-official
16:34, 26.12.2018
                  

YEREVAN. – The Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia will not file an appeal with the Court of Cassation against the Criminal Court of Appeal decision regarding Investigative Committee former Deputy Chairman Vahagn Harutyunyan, who is a defendant in the criminal case into what had occurred in capital city Yerevan, in March 2008.

Arevik Khachatryan, head of the public relations division at the attorney general’s office, told about the abovementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

On December 12, the Criminal Court of Appeal overturned the first instance court decision on remanding Harutyunyan in custody He is charged with falsifying evidence within the framework of the aforesaid March 2008 criminal case.

According to the Special Investigation Service statement, during investigation along the lines of the above-said criminal case, it was found out that, from 2007 to 2011—and as head of the team investigating the events that occurred in Yerevan in March 2008, Harutyunyan had falsified evidence during the investigation of this criminal case.

This July, Vahagn Harutyunyan was dismissed from the office of Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee, and as head of the general department of investigation of especially important cases.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS