Criminal case

Our Client, Accused of Serious Crimes, Released from Detention

ANOTHER VICTORY IN A CRIMINAL CASE CONCERNING TAX EVASION. THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AGAINST OUR CLIENT ON CHARGES OF TAX EVASION IN THE AMOUNT EXCEEDING AMD 556,000,000 WAS TERMINATED ON EXONERATIVE GROUNDS

The extradition of our client, who was under international search, did not take place, and he returned to his country of citizenship

The criminal prosecution against our client on charges of tax evasion exceeding AMD 2.8 billion has been terminated, and the criminal proceedings have been closed on rehabilitative grounds

In the criminal proceedings that have been under investigation for a long period of time by the Main Department for the Investigation of Economic Crimes and Smuggling of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia, public criminal prosecution was initiated in July 2025 against R.N., a client of our firm’s attorney Andranik Mnatsakanyan, under Article 296, Part 3, Point 3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, for the alleged commission of a particularly serious crime (money laundering on an especially large scale). In addition, detention was applied to him as a preventive measure.

In December 2025, in the criminal case being investigated by the Arabkir Division of the Yerevan City Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee, our law firm’s lawyer, Andranik Mnatsakanyan, represented the interests of D.E., who had been charged with a serious crime under Article 166, Part 2, Points 5 and 10 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia—namely, causing serious bodily harm to another person through hooliganism by a group of persons. A motion was also submitted to the Yerevan City Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction regarding the application of pretrial detention as a preventive measure against D.E.