Armenia’s former Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan will remain in custody, his lawyer Sergey Hovhannisyan told reporters on Monday.
Judge Manvel Shahverdyan of the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction denied a defense motion to release him, arms dealer Davit Galstyan and two other former senior military officials involved in the case, upholding their arrest, Pastinfo reported.
In the meantime, the court ruled to release Artyom Hambaryan, another defendant in the case, on a bail of 5 million drams (approx. $10,000).
Tonoyan’s lawyers had earlier asked the court to releas...
