ArmInfo. Head of the Public Council, Vazgen Manukyan, admitted that he was surprised at the criminal case against parliamentary Speaker Ara Babloyan. At a press conference on October 30, Manukyan said the charges are based on a < wrong semicolon>.
As for the head of the Constitutional Court, Hrayr Tovmasyan, it was stated here that the authorities were persecuting him in order to get this position. According to Manukyan, prior to his appointment, Tovmasyan was "checked by X-ray, and nothing was found". "This means that this person is clean and not corrupt," the head of the Public Council noted.
It should be noted that the Investigative Committee of Armenia found factual evidence of abuses committed by the current head of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan during his tenure as head of the Ministry of Justice. In the framework of the criminal case, in addition to Hrayr Tovmasyan, the charge under part 2 of article 308 of the Criminal Code of Armenia is an abuse of official powers, entailing by negligence, grave consequences were also brought against Norayr Panosyan, who in 2011-2014 held the post of head of the Inspectorate for the Legality of the Ministry of Justice.
In addition, according to the report of the Special Investigation Service, there is evidence that in March 2018, in the process of Gagik Harutyunyan's resignation of the powers of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, officials, based on group interests, personally and also through non-officials committed an official forging to appoint Hrayr Tovmasyan to the post of head of the Constitutional Court. In fact, a criminal case was initiated on usurpation of power, in the framework of which charges were brought against ex-speaker of the parliament Ara Babloyan and head of the parliament's apparatus Arsen Babayan.