Criminal case

On December 17, 2024, the Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction of the First Instance of Yerevan, having considered the investigator’s motion to reaffirm the detention imposed on A. Gh., the client of our office’s attorneys, Arsen Sardaryan and Edgar Ayvazyan, who is accused of serious and particularly serious crimes, rejected the motion and applied an alternative preventive measure, including house arrest.

As we previously reported, between June and November 2024, four foreign nationals involved in the same criminal proceedings approached our office at different times. The detention imposed on all of them as a preventive measure was replaced with an alternative measure within days of our lawyers taking over their defense. (https://www.lsa.am/a-series-of-victories-for-lsa-detention-of-4-defendants-replaced-by-alternative-preventive-measures/)

In a criminal proceeding initiated by the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia, the client of our office’s attorneys Andranik Mnatsakanyan and Edgar Ayvazyan, E.B., was charged under Article 435, Part 3, Point 3 of the RA Criminal Code for a particularly grave crime, namely receiving a particularly large bribe by a group of officials. Thanks to the correctly chosen defense strategy and the objective approach demonstrated by the investigator conducting the preliminary investigation and the supervising prosecutor, the detention applied as a preventive measure against the accused was lifted, and a restriction on leaving the country was imposed as a preventive measure.

Residents of Abovyan city, Kotayk region of Armenia, A.A. and A.S.A., were accused of committing a murder as part of a group and acquiring and possessing weapons as part of a group—actions prohibited under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia. As a result of nearly a year of persistent work...

Between June and November 2024, foreign nationals B.F., F.E., E.F., and M.O., involved in the same criminal case, sought legal representation from our office. In this criminal case, the defendants were charged under Part 1 of Article 319, Points 1 and 3 of Part 3 of Article 257, Points 1 and 3 of Part 2 of Article 285, and Points 1 and 3 of Part 3 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, namely: participating in a criminal organization, committing large-scale computer fraud by a criminal organization, aiding the illegal activities of companies recognized as legal entities under the direction of a criminal organization leader, and money laundering on a large scale by a criminal organization.

Lawyer Edgar Ayvazyan ensured T. Gh.’s house arrest replaced detention. Judge Givi Hovhannisyan led a fair trial, balancing justice with humanity.