ArmInfo. The prosecutor's office appealed the decision of the court of general jurisdiction on the measure of suppression of three of the five defendants in the high- profile case of the illegal adoption of children. This was reported by Advisor to the Prosecutor General of Armenia Gor Abrahamyan on his Facebook page.
At the end of last year, the court rejected applications for the election of a preventive measure in the form of arrest. In this regard, the relevant complaints were sent to the Court of Appeal regarding the director of the Republican Institute of Reproductive Health, Perinatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology CJSC Razmik Abrahamyan, RA citizen D. Grigoryan and head of the Yerevan Children's Home Liana Karapetyan. In the case of relevant justifications, it is possible that a measure of restraint against two more persons involved in the scandalous case, citizens Anush Garsantsyan and deputy director of the aforementioned medical center Arshak Jerjeryan, will be appealed.
As previously reported, the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia revealed gross violations of Armenian legislation when children were adopted by foreigners in Armenia. Thus, evidence was obtained that two citizens of the Republic of Armenia, using their contacts in one of the republican obstetric institutions, in a number of departments of the Republic of Armenia, as well as in orphanages, with a gross violation of the legislation of Armenia, organized the process of adoption of more than three dozen Armenian children by Italian citizens.
To this end, a number of obstetric institution employees and other employees endowed with managerial powers, by prior conspiracy, intentionally and for personal gain, from 2016 to 2018, forced them to abandon the children and against their will give consent to adopt more than one dozen women who have come to the maternity ward of this company for an abortion due to social or personal problems, threatening to make their pregnancy public, exaggerating the illness of the child and providing false information in order to exert psychological pressure Moreover, in some cases they did not disdain to demand a bribe from women in labor for rendered medical services.
Having written documents on abandonment of children, the majority of infants with appropriate medical diagnoses were sent to orphanages. A criminal case has been instituted; an investigation is underway.