Appeals Court upholds Anticorruption Court`s verdict on Samvel  Karapetyan 

ArmInfo.  On October 16, the Anti-Corruption Court demanded that the Investigative Committee of Armenia either refer the case to court or dismiss it regarding the "conscription" episode. The investigative body, comprised of 53 investigators, continued its policy of utter inaction and disrespect  for the court. Lawyer Aram Vardevanyan wrote about this on his  Facebook account.

Vardevanyan recalled that on October 16, 2025, the Anti-Corruption  Court extended Samvel Karapetyan's pretrial detention for one month,  once again finding a lack of reasonable suspicion on economic  charges.  Both the defense and the state prosecution filed appeals  against the court's decision.

Meanwhile, the defense expected the arrest to be immediately lifted  and a finding of a lack of reasonable suspicion on the "conscription"  episode to be established. The prosecutor's office, however, demanded  that a reasonable suspicion be established on the economic charges  and that the actual detention period be reduced to two months.  However, the Court of Appeal upheld the Anti-Corruption Court's  decision.

As a reminder, on October 16, the Anti-Corruption Court demanded that  the investigative body either refer the case to court or dismiss it  in the "call" episode. The investigative body, consisting of 53  investigators, once again recorded decisive inaction and disrespect  for the judicial decision.

Furthermore, on October 24, the Cassation Court accepted the  prosecutor's office's unfounded complaint, and it is clear that, in  the context of political persecution, a record-breaking speed of  judicial decision- making is expected. I predicted that the Cassation  Court would not administer justice at all, since the complaint bears  the name of Samvel Karapetyan, and the plaintiff is the prosecutor's  office. Incidentally, I have studied in detail the practice of  accepting cases for proceedings and issuing decisions by the Anti-  Corruption Chamber of the Cassation Court, and so far there has not  been a single case in which the Cassation Court has issued a decision  within even a month.

And, reminder #3: Samvel Karapetyan was clearly illegally arrested  for approximately five months solely for his speech in defense of the  Mother See, the lawyer wrote.

Tashir Group President Samvel Karapetyan has been in custody since  June 18, 2025. By decision of the Anti-Corruption Court, his arrest  has been extended until November 17. He is accused of three counts:   public calls for the seizure of power (following his public support  for the Armenian Apostolic Church), large-scale tax evasion, and  money laundering.

On October 16, 2025, the Anti-Corruption Court partially granted the  investigative team's motion, extending Karapetyan's pretrial  detention by one month. The court once again found a lack of  reasonable suspicion of the economic crimes with which Samvel  Karapetyan was accused in July. The investigative team did not  terminate the case, but apparently included new information in the  motion. Moreover, the court also established the absence of even  reasonable suspicions in the new economic charges brought on October  7, 2025," Samvel Karapetyan's defense noted at the time.