As part of the probe into the bribery case, instituted against a district court judge, Armenia’s Special Investigative Committee has ordered and enforced a defense lawyer’s detention.
Speaking to Tert.am, a spokesperson for the Committee, Elza Zakaryan, said that the detained lawyer is Elza Zakaryan.
Ishkhan Barseghyan, who served as a judge at the Court of First Instance of the Shengavit Administrative District (Yerevan), was arrested by national security officials while accepting a bribe of US $1,000 in an underground passage.
He was detained on Friday afternoon after the Justice Council approved a motion submitted by the prosecutor general.
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