An Armenian prosecutor has dismissed coup charges brought against former parliament speaker Ara Babloyan and one of his former senior aides by another law-enforcement agency.
A retired senior judge appears to have fled Armenia at the weekend immediately after being charged with bribery.
The director of Armenia’s main maternity hospital and two other officials were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of forcing young women to abandon their babies who were subsequently adopted by foreigners paying bribes.
An opposition leader claimed on Friday that Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian made lucrative concessions to two wealthy individuals previously linked to Armenia’s former leadership in return for their material aid provided to the municipal administration.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency brought on Monday criminal charges against former Prosecutor-General Gevorg Kostanian stemming from security forces’ post-election crackdown on opposition protesters in Yerevan in 2008.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has issued an arrest warrant for a former provincial governor notorious for violent conduct after bringing corruption charges against him.
Judge Vahe Grigorian has urged the Armenian parliament to step in to resolve what he describes as a crisis in the Constitutional Court whose chairman’s legitimacy is disputed by the government.
Law-enforcement authorities brought coup charges against former parliament speaker Ara Babloyan on Monday as part of their investigation into Hrayr Tovmasian’s appointment in March 2018 as chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
The former chief bodyguard of ex-President Serzh Sarkisian and his wife prosecuted on corruption charges have paid the state almost 2.9 billion drams ($6 million) in compensation, investigators said on Friday.
Armenia’s former parliament speaker Ara Babloyan strongly denied on Wednesday any involvement in a “usurpation of power” alleged by a law-enforcement agency as he risked being prosecuted on coup charges.
Gagik Harutiunian on Wednesday dismissed as “fairy tales” government claims that the former Armenian authorities forced him to resign as chairman of the Constitutional Court last year to make way for a new chief justice handpicked by them.
Citing health reasons, a wealthy businessman prosecuted on corruption charges has postponed his return to Armenia from Germany where he was allowed to receive medical treatment early this year.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has formally agreed to advise Armenia’s Constitutional Court on the legality of coup charges brought against former President Robert Kocharian.
The judge presiding over the trial of Robert Kocharian dismissed on Monday his lawyers’ claims that she is biased against the Armenia’s arrested former president and must therefore recuse herself from the case.
Alik Sargsian, a former chief of the Armenian police, has been charged with covering up what law-enforcement authorities now describe as security forces’ illegal post-election crackdown on opposition protesters in Yerevan in 2008.
The Court of Cassation, Armenia’s highest body of criminal justice, has rejected former President Robert Kocharian’s appeal against his renewed arrest allowed by a lower court in June.
A former chief of the Armenian police, Hayk Harutiunian, has been found shot to death in his home, law-enforcement authorities said on Tuesday.
Three days after deciding not to recognize Robert Kocharian’s arrest and prosecution as unconstitutional, a court in Yerevan also refused on Friday to release the former Armenian president from prison on bail.
Vladimir Gasparian, a former chief of the Armenian police, was charged on Wednesday with abusing his powers to benefit people working for former President Serzh Sarkisian’s brothers.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament will urge the Constitutional Court to replace its chairman, Hrayr Tovmasian, accusing him of mishandling judicial proceedings in the criminal case against former President Robert Kocharian.
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