Arminfo, Armenia
Aug 3 2020
ArmInfo. The court rejected the investigator's petition to arrest the former deputy mayor of Yerevan Vahe Nikoyan and the former head of one of the companies subordinated to the mayor's office Gevorg Hakobyan.
According to the Special Investigation Service, Nikoyan and Hakobyan were charged under part 2 of article 308 (abuse of office) and part 1 of article 314 (official forgery) of the RA Criminal Code. Other details of the criminal case were not disclosed.
Vahe Nikoyan was appointed Deputy Mayor in January 2012. In 2018, the mayor of the capital, Hayk Marutyan, offered him to take the post of adviser, but Nikoyan refused.