ArmInfo.On September 7, the court granted the petition of the defense and allowed former speaker of the RA National Assembly Ara Babloyan to temporarily leave the country. To note, the prosecutor did not object to this motion. According to Judge Harutyun Manukyan, the court took into account, in particular, the behavior shown by Babloyan during the preliminary investigation and judicial investigation, as well as the position of the prosecutor.
Earlier, the Special Investigation Service reported that there is factual evidence that in March 2018, in the process of Gagik Harutyunyan's resignation of the powers of the Head of the Constitutional Court, officials, proceeding from group interests, personally, as well as through persons who are not officials, they committed an official forgery in order to appoint Hrayr Tovmasyan as the head of the Constitutional Court.
Thus, former head of the Constitutional Court Gagik Harutyunyan, whose term of office (70 years) was to end on March 23, 2018, signed a statement addressed to NA Speaker Ara Babloyan to resign from the post of President of the Constitutional Court, which was dated March 1, 2018. The then Speaker of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan, having not officially received this statement from Gagik Harutyunyan, on March 2 illegally signed and made a statement on the submission of the statement of resignation by head of the Constitutional Court Gagik Harutyunyan. Otherwise, the head of the National Assembly would not have the opportunity to announce the resignation of the head of the Constitutional Court until the next regular sitting of the National Assembly on March 20, 2018.
To note. in the conditions of observance of the three-day term stipulated by the law, after that it would be impossible to appoint Hrayr Tovmasyan as the head of the Constitutional Court, since there was no provision for the next sitting of the National Assembly. As a result, favorable conditions were created for the process of nomination and appointment of Hrayr Tovmasyan to the vacant post of the head of the Constitutional Court. Ara Babloyan is charged under Part 1 of Article 308 and Part 1 of Article 314 of the RA Criminal Code, and Arsen Babayan is charged under Part 1 of Article 38-300 and Part 1 of Article 314 of the RA Criminal Code.