ArmInfo. The Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction rejected the petition of the defense of the former head of the security service of the third president of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan Vachagan Ghazaryan, on his release on bail. An amount starting from 5 million AMD was offered as a pledge. Today at 4:00pm the court will consider a petition to extend Ghazaryan's arrest.
To note, Ghazaryan is accused of concealing income and illegal enrichment. Earlier, during searches in the premises belonging to the Ghazaryan family, large sums of money were found - 35 million drams, 1 million 110 thousand 400 dollars and 230 thousand 500 euros, another 2 thousand dollars were found in the garage the next day. On June 25, Ghazaryan was detained at the exit from the bank after he had cashed 50 thousand dollars, before that in another bank - another 120 thousand dollars and 436 million drams. He was detained and taken to the National Security Service of Armenia. However, then he was released on bail in the framework of 1 billion drams.