APPEAL DENIED

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Judge Arshak Petrosian of the Kentron and Nork-Marash districts general jurisdiction court denied the appeal of attorneys of former Deputy Prosecutor General Gagik Jhangirian that were filed against the verdicts of investigator Vahagn Harutyunian and prosecutor Koriun Piloian.

Let us remind that Gagik Jhangirian’s defendants Lusine Sahakian and Yervand Varosyan are filing an appeal against the charge that was pressed based on the first section of article 300 and later abolished due to insufficient evidence. In other words, the defendants are claiming that the charges pressed against Gagik Jhangirian based on the first section of article 300 had to be abolished not because there were no proofs of his participation, but that they had to at least be based on the fact that there were no corpus delicti in what he did.

Judge Arshak Petrosian substantiated the verdict that he had reached by the fact that the proofs stated during the preliminary investigation of the case were enough to press a charge based on the first section of article 300 of the RA Criminal Code, but they were not enough for continuing the criminal persecution against Gagik Jhangirian and sending the case to court. Thus, there are not enough grounds to make Vahagn Harutyunian get rid of the verdict and reach a new one.

“It is clear that the judge has made an unlawful decision and in essence has reprinted the objections made by Vahagn Harutyunian and Koriun Piloian,” told “A1+” Lusine Sahakyan regarding the verdict and added that in reality the verdict was unlawful right from the start because, according to her, the judge had convened another session and violated the confidentiality while the case was in the process of consultation. Besides that, his verdict is not well-reasoned.

Let us add that the attorneys are going to appeal to the Appeals Court.