Prosecutor`s Office: Zhirayr Sefilyan created and directed an armed group

ArmInfo. The case of the hero of the Artsakh war and the leader of the "Constituent Parliament" Zhirayr Sefilyan and his supporters with indictment was sent to the court.  ArmInfo was informed about this in the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office.

In particular, the department noted that Sefilyan is charged on art. 35-225, part 1 of Criminal Code of Armenia (Preparation for a crime and organizing riots accompanied by violence, pogroms, arsons, destruction or damage to property, use of firearms, explosives or explosive devices or providing armed resistance to a representative of power), part 3 of Article 235 of the Criminal Code (illegal acquisition, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of firearms, ammunition by a group of persons), according to clause 1 of part 3 of Article 35-219 (seizure of buildings, structures, means of transport, communication or communication, other communes or their retention, combined with the threat of their destruction or damage committed by an organized group for the purpose of compelling a state, organization or citizen to take any action or refrain from the commission of any action, as a condition for the release of the captured).

"The proofs show that Selfilyan, to make the authorities take some actions through using weapons and violence threatening the lives of servicemen and in purpose of seizing building of strategic importance, in November 2015 created and directed an armed group. It consisted of Sasunik Kirakosyan, Hrayr Topchyan, Hovhannes Petrosyan, Galust Grigoryan, Nerses Poghosyan, Artur Movsisyan and Smbat Gpaloyan, whom Sefilyan gave AK-74s with 120 battle bullets. To avoid disclosure, the group periodically was changing its location while waiting for Sefilyan's order. In April 2016 in connection with the death of many servicemen in the zone of the Karabakh conflict, the members of the group refused to participate in the armed assault with the use of violence, and on May 20 of the same year the weapons and ammunition belonging to them were found. The seizure of buildings and structures failed."

Since May 2014, Sefilyan, Pavel Manukyan, Garegin Chugaszyan, Varuzhan Avetisyan and Gevorg Safaryan have, by preliminary agreement, begun recruiting people to create a group to organize mass riots with the use of violence, damage to property and armed confrontation. They also purchased and stored about four dozen iron bars, adapted for bodily injury, as well as wooden batons, knuckles, electric shockers.  The crime was not completed, as law enforcement agencies identified the actions aimed at its implementation," the authors of the statement stressed.