Thursday, September 19 2019 16:00

ArmInfo.Lawyers of the former Chief of the Police of Armenia Vladimir Gasparyan demand an immediate end to the criminal prosecution of his client due to the lack of  corpus delicti.. The lawyer of the former Police Chief Tigran Atanesyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.

<Today, we presented the RA Prosecutor General with a written  complaint demanding an immediate end to the criminal prosecution  against Colonel General Vladimir Gasparyan due to the lack of corpus  delicti.

The investigator, in our opinion, made a gross legal error related to  the current version of the law and the current version of the law in  2011, due to the lack of corpus delicti.

<We are counting on a one-page <monumental> legal monument-response  with the rejection of our complaint>- said the publication of the  lawyer of former Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan.

It became known, that yesterday former  Police Chief Vladimir  Gasparyan was charged in the framework of a criminal case on abuse of  power committed by several officials of the RA Ministry of Defense.

According to the press service of the Investigative Committee  Vladimir Gasparyan, being a commander and an official, from June,  1997 to October, 2010 holding the position of the Head of Military  Police then till November, 2011 - the position of RA Deputy Minister  of Defense, being aware that 3 servicemen of a unit of the RA  Ministry of Defense being registered in the mentioned unit as a  military policeman from 2001, 2004 and 2009, accordingly, do not  attend work, instead they do another job - one of them worked as a  driver of the RA Second President Serzh Sargsyan's brother Lyova  Sargsyan, the other two - Alexander Sargsyan's bodyguards, out of  personal and group interests, in order to gain favorable treatment of  the mentioned persons, abusing his official power allowed the above  mentioned servicemen to do other job.  

Moreover, V. Gasparyan instructed the serviceman under him not to  take appropriate legal action on these circumstances. Besides, on  December 3, 2010 Vladimir Gasparyan, holding the position of RA  Deputy Minister of Defense, prolonged the service term of one of the  mentioned servicemen for 5 years. 

As a result, during V. Gasparyan's tenure in the RA Ministry of  Defense the mentioned servicemen, who did not perform their real  functions and did not attend the military unit, were not dismissed  from work and  21.691.481 AMD was paid to them from the RA state  budget causing the state damage in particularly large amount.  

On the base of the obtained sufficient evidence charge was pressed  against V. Gasparyan according to the Part 2 of the Article 375 of RA  Criminal Code. Signature not to leave was chosen as a pretrial  measure against him.