“Today we submitted an appeal to the Prosecutor General to immediately suspend the criminal prosecution against Colonel-General Vladimir Gasparyan citing the absence of corpus delicti”, attorney Tigran Atanesyan said on Facebook.
Armenia’s investigative committee revealed a number of circumstances regarding the ongoing criminal case connected with the abuse of power by separate officials of the defense ministry, the Investigative Committee told Armenpress.
Vladimir Gasparyan (former police chief of Armenia) has been charged.
According to the investigation results, Vladimir Gasparyan, serving as head of the military police department from June 1997 to October 2010, later as deputy defense ministry until November 2011, being aware that three servicemen of the defense ministry’s military unit being designated as a military police officer do not conduct their military service, but carry out other tasks instead, enabled them to conduct activities not deriving from their status. In particular, one of these servicemen worked as a driver of Levon Sargsyan, the brother of the former P...
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