The preliminary investigation of the case of commander of the Sisakan military detachment, Colonel Ashot Minasyan is over, Minasyan’s advocate Mihran Poghosyan reported.

“The Investigation Department of the National Security Service of Armenia has ended criminal prosecution against Ashot Minasyan under the episodes of preparation for assassination of the Prime Minister and usurpation of power, as well as with regard to grave crimes of a group of people keeping arms and ammunition.

Basically, the body implementing proceedings has finally come to the conclusion that the described actions are not crimes and that Ashot Minasyan has the status of an acquitted person with regard to this.

Currently, Ashot Minasyan is only charged with medium gravity offense with imprisonment for a term of up to maximum 3 years.

This concerns the arms and ammunition found in the city of Sisian on November 13, 2020 to which Ashot Minasyan is linked as much as every citizen of the Republic of Armenia.

By getting acquainted with the case materials after the end of the preliminary investigation and after not finding at least one piece of evidence certifying the link of Ashot Minasyan to the offense, today we filed a motion with the body implementing proceedings with the request to end criminal prosecution against Ashot Minasyan,” wrote the advocate on his Facebook page.