Criminal case

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.

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/)