The Court of Cassation has satisfied the appeal of the Deputy Prosecutor General, granting legal effect to the decision of the Court of First Instance on choosing the detention as a preventive measure and recognizing the use of the pledge as inadmissible. Responding to the question of Armenpress, this was mentioned by the Public Relations Department of the RA Prosecutor General’s Office.
Vachagan Ghazaryan will be again arrested.
Vachagan Ghazaryan, former deputy head of the RA National Security State Protection Service, former President Serzh Sargsyan’s security service, was released under the decision of the Criminal Court of Appeal for a bail of 1 billion AMD.
On June 27, the investigator of the RA Special Investigative Service filed a petition to the Yerevan City Court of General Jurisdiction for the detention of Vachagan Ghazaryan as a precautionary measure.
On June 28, the court granted the motion and Ghazaryan was detained.
Vachagan Ghazaryan was charged under the Article 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia and Part 3 of Article 310.1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia that he had hidden in the declarations submitted to the Ethics Commission of the RA High-Ranking Officials is the sum of the actual amount of cash available, as well as illegally enriched.