Criminal case

In July 2024, the defendant A.H. approached us to take over the protection of his interests within the framework of the criminal case being investigated against him.

In the criminal case initiated by the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia, Andranik Mnatsakanyan, a lawyer from our firm, represented the client B.B., who on October 11, 2024, was charged with three counts of serious crimes under point 3 of part 2 of Article 435 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, as well as medium-gravity crimes under part 1 of Article 447 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, namely: receiving a bribe by an official for patronage and failure to take measures to halt the unauthorized construction of a building or structure.

On October 7, 2024, the General Jurisdiction Criminal Court of Yerevan rejected the investigator’s motion to extend the detention period of our client, Sh.K., who is accused of illegally crossing the border of the Republic of Armenia with forged documents.

On September 30, 2024, the trial regarding our client A.H. and two other defendants concluded in the General Jurisdiction Court of the Lori Region, presided over by our lawyers Andranik Mnatsakanyan and Arsen Sardaryan. In this criminal case, A.H. was charged under Article 469, Part 3, Point 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia for the serious crime of illegally crossing the state border of the Republic of Armenia by a group of individuals with prior agreement. According to the published verdict, the court did not apply the imposed penalty of imprisonment conditionally on A.H. and the other two defendants, instead establishing a probation period. We thank Judge Armen Shiroyan for conducting a fair trial and rendering a humanitarian judicial act.

Our client I.M. Charges were brought under Part 3 of Article 190 and Point 2 of Part 3 of Article 266 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, adopted on April 18, 2003, on two episodes.

Since 2020, the criminal case has been under review in the general jurisdiction court of first instance in the Kotayk region of the Republic of Armenia regarding our clients A.A. and A.S.A. for allegedly committing group murder and acquiring and possessing weapons and ammunition. These alleged offenses are provided for by point 7 of part 2 of Article 104 and part 2 of Article 235 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, adopted in 2003. The accused A.A. has been in detention for more than 5 years, while A.S.A. has been in detention for more than 2 years.