ArmInfo. The accusations against Mikael Minasyan, the son- in-law of RA former President Serzh Sargsyan, were amended and supplemented. This was reported by the State Revenue Committee, referring to a multi-episode criminal case being investigated by the SRC investigative department.
"During the preliminary investigation of the criminal case, on the basis of sufficient evidence obtained as a result of large-scale investigative and operational-search actions, on September 3 of this year, the body carrying out the proceedings made a decision to amend and supplement the decision to bring Minasyan as an accused. On the same day, Minasyan was charged as an accused under paragraph 1 of part 3 of Article 190 (two episodes), Article 310, part 1 of Article 310.1 (three episodes), and part 2 of Article 314.3 (five episodes). After that, a new petition was submitted to the court for the selection of a preventive measure in the form of detention in respect of the accused, which, as previously reported, was upheld by the court decision of 22 September. The court also granted the petition for the use of arrest as a preventive measure against a person close to Minasyan - Leonid Arevshatyan, "the statement of the SRC said.
According to the source, the previously submitted applications for the use of arrest as a preventive measure against Minasyan were rejected solely on the basis of criminal procedure norms.
To note, two criminal cases have been initiated against Mikael Minasyan. In the first criminal case, Minasyan was charged as a defendant in a criminal case on illegal enrichment, money laundering and the inclusion of false data in the income tax return. Arrest was chosen as a measure of restraint against him. There is no exact information regarding his current location; Minasyan himself previously reported on Facebook about the initiation of more than 10 criminal cases against people related to him and his family. Last fall, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on Minasyan to return to his homeland and answer questions from the Special Investigation Service. In particular, the talk was about the illegal, as the Prime Minister noted, privatization of a strategic facility in Lori region. According to media reports, this facility is the Dzoraget hydroelectric power station ("Dzora HPP"). Former head of the RA Defense Ministry Seyran Ohanyan, who is suspected of embezzling property in the amount of 1,046,400,000 AMD, is being accused in the criminal case concerning "Dzora HPP". The second criminal case in the SIS was initiated on the fact of exceeding official powers, which, through negligence, entailed grave consequences.