Former Yerevan Mayor Gagik Beglaryan's Lawyer to File Cassation Appeal

The Court of Appeal has rejected the lawyer's appeal against the decision to apply detention as a preventive measure for former Yerevan Mayor Gagik Beglaryan. This was reported to "Pastinfo" by lawyer Hrant Ananyan.

The lawyer informed that he is preparing to file a cassation appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision.

It has previously been reported that Gagik Beglaryan has been charged under part 3 of Article 179 and part 2 of Article 308 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia for committing particularly large-scale embezzlement or misappropriation and for abusing his official powers, which has resulted in serious consequences.

According to the National Security Service (NSS) statement, Beglaryan used his official position for personal gain, misappropriating particularly large amounts of real estate valued at 233,470,000 AMD, specifically the kindergarten located on Tamanyan Street in Yerevan.

The NSS investigative department has announced a wanted notice for Beglaryan and submitted a petition to the court for him to be detained as a preventive measure, which the court accepted.

The lawyer argues that the court exceeded the bounds of the investigator's petition when considering the detention request, noting alleged circumstances that the investigator did not attribute to Beglaryan even in the decision to involve him as a defendant.

In particular, the court has reserved the right to develop the hypothesis that supposedly there was no meeting of the Yerevan Council on December 23, 2009, and therefore, supposedly the decision No. 55 was not adopted, despite Beglaryan allegedly signing a non-existent decision which is considered a normative legal act and was immediately published in the official bulletin and online.

Moreover, the lawyer expressed doubts that the court was constrained when considering the petition for Beglaryan's detention and making the decision.