Former Speaker of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan is currently in the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Armenia. The SIS did not comment on the question of whether it is possible for Babloyan to be charged, HJ writes.  

Let’s remind that on the basis of the sufficient evidence obtained during the preliminary investigation of the criminal case under investigation at the CSI, Arsen Babayan was charged yesterday with the features provided for in Article 38-300, Part 1 and Article 314, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia. Within the framework of the same criminal case, Ara Babloyan, former Speaker of the National Assembly of RA, was involved as a suspect, on the suspicion of usurping the power.

According to the SIS report, Arsen Babayan has created false grounds for taking over the powers of the Constitutional Court in order to publish the statement of the Speaker of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan about the resignation of the President of the Constitutional Court Gagik Harutyunyan, signed on March 2, 2018, which in turn became the basis for the termination of the latter’s powers, and later for the process of nominating and appointing Hrayr Tovmasyan to that vacant position.