ArmInfo.. The lawyer of the Republican deputy, the head of the Yerkrapah Volunteer Union, General Manvel Grigoryan, Hrant Ananyan refuses to continue his case. He stated on his Facebook page.
According to the lawyer, yesterday's speech by the Prime Minister, as well as the video, distributed by the National Security Service of Armenia, was a surprise to him. As Ananyan notes, having undertaken the case, in addition to suspicions about the storage of weapons and ammunition, he was not informed of other circumstances of the charge. Even the body of preliminary investigation did not express such suspicions and did not present materials about it. "In the current conditions, I think it is inappropriate to continue to protect Manvel Grigoryan, and, on my proposal and with the consent of M. Grigoryan (which is an imperative of the law), the preliminary investigation authority recorded this fact a little earlier, and I ceased to be his lawyer," wrote Grant Ananyan.
On June 16, the National Security Service of Armenia detained MP of the Armenian Parliament from RPA, General Manvel Grigoryan. During the searches, the NSS officers found and seized a large number of weapons and ammunition; in addition, a large arsenal of unregistered weapons, up to the mortars, rations for soldiers collected by schoolchildren, and even ambulances and army ATVs were found in the mansion and at the country house.
The evening before, after almost 5 hours of discussion, the court of the administrative districts of Avan and Nork-Marash declared his detention justified - Manvel Grigoryan remains in custody until he is officially charged within 72 hours of his arrest. After the trial, Hrant Ananyan told reporters that the bodies of the preliminary investigation did not present evidence of Manvel Grigoryan's participle in the court proceedings for misappropriation and theft of aid to servicemen, as stated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.