The court rejected the investigative body’s motion to arrest the director of one of Armenia’s major taxpayers

The subdivisions of the General Department for the Investigation of Economic Crimes and Smuggling of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia continue to apply strict criminal procedural measures in proceedings initiated in relation to alleged crimes against economic activity.

On July 11 of this year, our client, Mr. E.V., director of a major company engaged in the production of alcoholic beverages, was arrested by the decision of an investigator from the General Department for the Investigation of Economic Crimes and Smuggling of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia. On the same day, he was charged with the supposed commission of a crime related to large-scale tax evasion, and a motion was submitted to the court to apply detention as a preventive measure.

The Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction of the First Instance of Yerevan, examining the motion to apply detention as a preventive measure against our client D.A., who is accused of a grave crime (Part 1 of Article 393 of the RA Criminal Code), represented by our office attorneys Arsen Sardaryan and Edgar Ayvazyan, rejected the motion, applying alternative preventive measures — house arrest, bail, and a travel ban.

In a criminal case initiated in June 2025 by Investigative Division of Erebuni and Nubarashen administrative districts of the Yerevan City Investigative Division of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia, our office’s attorney, Andranik Mnatsakanyan, represented the client V.H., who was charged under Article 166, Part 2, Clause 6 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia for a serious crime—infliction of grievous bodily harm to another person using a pre-prepared item. A mediation was also filed with the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan City to impose detention as a preventive measure.