Criminal case

On April 30, 2025, during the preliminary hearing, the Criminal Court of First Instance of Yerevan lifted the house arrest imposed as a preventive measure on A.P., a client of our office’s attorney Edgar Ayvazyan, who is accused of committing a grave crime (Article 393, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia), and replaced it with a more lenient measure — administrative supervision. We thank Judge Roman Smbatyan for delivering a fair judicial decision.

On April 24, 2025, the Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction of First Instance of Yerevan, Republic of Armenia, presided over by Judge Tatevik Muradyan, considered the investigative body’s motion to apply detention as a preventive measure against our client V.H., who is accused of committing a crime under Article 290, Part 3, Clause 2 of the RA Criminal Code. The Court rejected the motion and applied alternative preventive measures.

Thanks to a well-chosen defense strategy and the objective approach shown by the investigator of the RA Investigative Committee and the supervising prosecutor, the charges brought against the defendants under Article 319(1), Article 257(3)(1,3), Article 285(2)(1,3), and Article 296(3)(1,3) of the RA Criminal Code (participation in a criminal organization, large-scale computer fraud by a criminal organization, aiding the unlawful activity of companies considered legal entities under the instruction of a criminal organization leader, and large-scale money laundering by a criminal organization) were modified in their favor at the final stage of the pre-trial investigation — with the charges under Article 285(2)(1,3) and Article 296(3)(1,3) being dropped.

On March 1, 2025, the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan City applied detention as a preventive measure against our client E.N., who was accused of committing a serious crime (drug trafficking under aggravating circumstances), for a period of 2 months. On April 10, 2025, the Criminal Court of Appeals of the Republic of Armenia upheld the special appeal submitted by attorney Edgar Ayvazyan and released our client from detention, applying house arrest and a travel ban as preventive measures instead.

Today, D.H., a client of the "LSA" Law Firm (lawyer Edgar Ayvazyan) who had been convicted of murder, was granted early conditional release and freed from the courtroom.

In the criminal case No. ED1/1267/01/24, examined in the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan, our office’s attorney, Edgar Ayvazyan, represented the defendant N.H., who had been charged under Article 452, Part 4, Clause 2 of the Criminal Code of Armenia for committing a serious crime—namely, using violence against a police officer in order to interfere with their official duties.