ArmInfo. Lawyer Arsen Babayan accused Vahagn Aleksanyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly from the ruling Civil Contract faction, of lying.
On his Facebook page, the lawyer writes: "In an interview with the Factor.am news agency on December 8, 2025, Vahagn Aleksanyan, touching upon the events surrounding Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan, made statements that do not correspond to reality. In some cases, he openly lied, and in others, he simply falsified information. The most obvious falsification and outright lie is the claim that an examination allegedly confirmed that the well-known video recording attributed to Archbishop Arshak was not created using artificial intelligence or any other special program. As a representative and defender of Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan, I officially declare that at the moment there is no expert opinion refuting the falsity of this video recording. The only conclusion of the "expert opinion" is the well-known half-page document, where the expert noted that the photo depicts the same person. In other words, the notorious "expert opinion" implies only a comparison of the frame, taken from a video recording, from one of Archbishop Arshak's photographs."
Furthermore, as Babayan emphasized, when ordering the examination, the investigator did not even ask the expert whether the video recording had been falsified. "I call on Vahagn Aleksanyan and his colleagues from the State Duma faction to refrain from spreading blatant lies and knowingly false information about Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan," Babayan wrote.
As a reminder, the archbishop was arrested on December 5. He is currently being held in the Yerevan- Kentron penitentiary institution. Judge Masis Melkonyan ordered the archbishop's arrest. The term of his arrest is two months. On December 4, Arshak was detained by National Security Service officers in the Investigative Committee building. The department reported that during the preliminary investigation, a public criminal prosecution was initiated against the archbishop under paragraphs 1 and 4 of part 2 of article 393 of the Criminal Code (illegal sale of narcotics by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).
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