Wednesday, October 23 2019 10:10

ArmInfo. Ex-Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Ara Babloyan was involved as a suspect in the criminal case on usurpation of state power. This is stated in  the message of the Special Investigation Service of Armenia, received by ArmInfo.

The department informs that meanwhile, the former acting Arsen  Babayan, deputy chief of staff of the parliament, has been charged  with complicity in this crime and committing forgery. "On the basis  of sufficient evidence obtained during the investigation of the  criminal case investigated by the Special Investigation Service,  Arsen Babayan was charged with part 1 of article 38-300 (complicity  in usurping state power) and part 1 of article 314 (Service fraud) of  the Criminal Code of Armenia.

In the same case, ex-speaker Ara  Babloyan was involved as a suspect. According to the indictment, on  February 12, 2018, the NA President proposed the candidacy of a  deputy from the Republican Party faction for a vacant seat.  Armenian  parliament Hrayr Tovmasyan.The National Assembly elected the latter  as a member of the Constitutional Court on March 2, 2018. As of March  1, 2018, when, before the 7th chapter of the Constitution came into  force, according to the referendum of December 6, 2015, about 40 days  (the newly elected president of Armenia was supposed to take office  on April 9, 2018), a group of officials to avoid constitutional  regulation coming into effect on the election of the head of the  Constitutional Court for a term of 6 years and providing an  opportunity for a member of his team to be in zhnosti to 70 years,  with the order stipulated by the Constitution violation seized power  by appointing 21 th March 2018 - prior to the entry into force of the  restriction - Hrayr Tovmasyan for the position of Chairman of the  Constitutional Court ", - reported in the CCC.

 According to the CCC,  in particular, the former head of the Constitutional Court Gagik  Harutyunyan, whose term of office (70 years) was supposed to end on  March 23, 2018, signed a statement addressed to the NA Speaker Ara  Babloyan on the resignation of the post of the chairman of the  Constitutional Council, which was dated 1- March 2018 "This statement  was sent from the general department of the Constitutional Court's  apparatus and, through the head of the apparatus, was handed to the  acting deputy head of the National Assembly's Arsen Babayan on March  5. Moreover, the Speaker of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan,  having not officially received this statement, Gagik Harutyunyan,  March 2 illegally signed and made a statement on the resignation of  Gagik Harutyunyan, head of the Constitutional Court, otherwise the  President of the National Assembly would not have been able to  announce the resignation of the President of the Constitutional  Assembly before the next ordinary sitting of the National Assembly on  March 20, 2018.

Observance of the statutory three-day deadline would  be impossible to appoint the head of the Constitutional Court Hrayr  Tovmasyan, as before the next session of the National Assembly was  not provided, "- said in a statement the CAS. The ministry also  emphasizes that Arsen Babayan, having violated the legal regulation  on part 6 of Article 97 of the Law "On the Rules of the National  Assembly" adopted on February 20, 2002, with the intention of  assisting a group of people in usurping the powers of the  Constitutional Court, in the context of introducing On March 5, 2018,  Gagik Harutyunyan's statements to the official Malbury electronic  system of the general department of the ND apparatus, through the  employees of this department, introduced false information to the  press about the receipt of this statement.

 "He also noted the entry  date in the Mulbury system on March 2, 2018. Thus, he distorted the  fact that Gagik Harutyunyan's statement arrived in the National  Assembly on March 5. Thus, Arsen Babayan created false grounds for  the publication of the fact of filing by the head CC Gagik  Harutyunyan's resignation letter, signed by NA Speaker Ara Babloyan  on March 2, 2018, with the goal of usurping the powers of the  Constitutional Court, which, in turn, became the basis for the  termination of his powers, and later on for the process of nominating  and appointing Hrayr To Masya this vacant position ", - reported in  the CCC, adding that the investigator presented to the court of  general jurisdiction of Yerevan's request for application to Babayan  arrest as a preventive measure.  

It should be noted that the Special Investigation Service, on the  basis of an appeal from independent MP Arman Babajanyan, opened a  criminal case on the basis of usurpation of power by a group of  people. The statement of Babajanyan concerns the chairman of the  Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan, whose legality is being  disputed by the deputy. Babajanyan, in his appeal to the Prosecutor  General's Office, previously claimed that Tovmasyan committed  violations of the law upon assuming this position in 2018.  According  to the parliamentarian, without the adopted procedure, without the  statement of Hrayr Tovmasyan, the deputy powers of Tovmasyan were  terminated on the basis of nonexistent justification by the then  chairman of the parliament. For nonexistent justifications, a person  cannot terminate deputy powers.