There has been one court hearing in the Sevak Abrahamyan case since January. will be sued

During the 2020 44 Day War Arman Tamrazyan, the lawyer of the commander of the Mataghis military unit, Sevak Abrahamyan brought back in a criminal case We last talked about the court process in January of this year. And it turns out that there have been no developments in these months, and the reason is more than clear: there are no court hearings.

“What we talked about is at the same stage, nothing has changed, we have not done anything, no meeting has taken place. There was only one hearing during this time, and I submitted a petition to stop the prosecution of the colonel, because at this stage it was possible to dismiss the case, the court postponed the hearing to see if we will discuss the issue at the end, and we have not held any hearings since then.

The courts are overburdened, there are probably 200 cases in the judge’s proceedings, when he gets it, it means we go, we work, if he doesn’t get it, the session doesn’t take place. This case is in the proceedings of judge Harutyun Manukyan,” explained the lawyer.

Let us remind that in 2022 Investigative Committee message was distributed, where it was specifically mentioned that Abrahamyan one day before the war՝ On September 26, 2020, with the participation of the main part of the officers of the military unit and other guests invited by him, about 100 officers of the Defense Army, he organized and held a party dedicated to the formation day of the military unit. During that time, he received reports from the commanders of the subordinate units included in the combat duty on the sharp increase in the danger of the movement of forces, resources, accumulations and transition of combat operations in the front line and in the rear of the enemy.

But, according to the Central Committee, being obliged to take a decision to bring all the personnel and resources of the military unit to the level of full combat readiness, go on the defense to replenish the combat positions and in this way identify, prevent, counter the enemy’s sudden attack and report it to the immediate chief at the first opportunity, Sevak Abrahamyan, the commander of the Mataghis military unit, did not take any measures in that direction.

Meanwhile, his lawyer insisted to us that all of the former head of the RA Armed Forces General Onik Gasparyan orders have been done:

It should be noted that after the indictment of Judge Artush Gabrielyan and the suspension of his powers, after the re-inscribing of this case in his proceedings, there were rumors that not only the unexamined witnesses should be interrogated by the court, but also those who were interrogated before this.

“We have finished the preliminary hearings, let’s start the main hearings, then we will understand whether we will not actually interrogate those we have already interrogated, and call the remaining ones for interrogation, there are still 40 witnesses left,” Arman Tamrazyan said.

The case related to the 44-day war is in court in 2023. since January, it was first sent to Syunik region, then moved to Yerevan, and the number of subpoenaed witnesses is 51.

We reported that the former chief of the RA Armed Forces General Staff was questioned in the case of the commander of Mataghis Onik Gasparyan, former commander of the Armed Forces Jalal Harutyunyan, During the 44-day war, the commander of the 10th Mountain Rifle Division of the Armed Forces Karen Shakaryan, Acting Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia Edward Asryan and others.

As we reported last year, the former commander of the Mataghis military unit is under administrative control.

And Sevak Abrahamyan’s case is not the only wartime criminal case that has not yet reached the finish line, that is, there is no verdict of the first instance, the important thing is that they made noise at the beginning. Of course, we do not justify organizing a party a day before the war.

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