Criminal case

On June 10 2021 upon the decision of the General jurisdiction court of the city of Yerevan, the petition of the first deputy chief of the Police of the Republic of Armenia was considered to issue permission to undertake operational investigative measures – surveillance of telephone conversations, which was granted by the court.

Our defendant Y.B. was arrested in Armenia based on an international arrest warrant issued by the Russian Federation. She was accused of committing five counts of large-scale fraud in Russia and was requested to be extradited under the 1993 Minsk Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family, and Criminal Matters. In this case, our team of lawyers managed to achieve a victory, thanks to which Y.B. was not extradited to Russia. Initially, the court rejected the motion for detention submitted by the Ministry of Justice of Armenia, and Y.B. was immediately released from the courtroom. This victory paved the way for the next success when the Ministry of Justice granted our motion and rejected the request to extradite Y.B. to Russia.

Thanks to the efforts of LSA lawyer A in criminal case No. 43155720 about B.M. and D.B Prosecutor’s Office of RA stopped criminal prosecution on the based that they did not commit an imputed act provided, respectively, by part 1 of Article 308 and Part 1 of Article 38-308 of the former Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia and the preventive measure applied against them was canceled.

The First Instance Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan City has rejected the motion of the lawyers of our office, Arsen Sardaryan, and Edgar Ayvazyan, to apply detention as a preventive measure against their client, F.G., a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who was accused of using a forged passport and illegally crossing the state border of the Republic of Armenia. Instead, the court selected administrative supervision, bail, and a prohibition on leaving as preventive measures for F.G. We are grateful to Judge Martin Arzumanyan for conducting a lawful, adversarial trial, as well as for issuing an exceptional, humanitarian, and well-reasoned judicial act.

Without losing faith in justice, lawyer Arsen Sardaryan fought for a long time to achieve justice and, finally, the court of General Jurisdiction of the Syunik region, chaired by Judge Lusine Sephanyan, acquitted the judge of general jurisdiction of the Syunik region Boris Bakhshiyan.