Court decides to arrest Manvel Grigoryan

ArmInfo.The Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan satisfied the motion of the Prosecutor General of Armenia of choosing arrest as a preventive measure agaisnt  MP of the National Assembly of RA, the head of the ''Yerkrapah'' Union of  volunteers, General Manvel Grigoryan.

On June 19 the Armenian parliament at an extraordinary meeting, as a  result of secret voting, satisfied the petition by Prosecutor General  Artur Davtyan to deprive MP Grigoryan from his parliamentary immunity  and initaiting a criminal case agaisnt him. As noted in the second  petition of the Prosecutor General, all the  revealed circumstances  increase the risk that, remaining in freedom, Manvel  Grigoryan will  try to exert pressure on the participants of the process, hide  evidences, falsify documents, or run away. The accused faces up to  eight years in prison. 

To recall, Armenian MP, Republican Party member, General Manvel   Grigoryan was detained by NSS employees on June 16. In the framework   of a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 235  (illegal circulation   of weapons) of the Criminal Code of Armenia the NSS conducted a   search in the  mansion and rest zone owned by Manvel Grigoryan on   June 16. According to the source, the recreation area was turned into   a  weapons warehouse, a garage of dozens of retro and modern cars.    The  cottage in Aknalich village served for the general as a  storehouse for food, hygiene products, medicines, military uniforms,   on which was marked  "soldier rations". "From the letters in the   boxes addressed to servicemen, it is obvious that the contents of    the boxes are the help  sent for soldiers to the front line, in the   days of April war," the NSS press center reported. During the search   of Manvel  Grigoryan's mansion, three vehicles were found with   collections of modern high-priced cars, retro cars, motorcycles and  snowmobiles. A  number of off-road cars, provided for in the days of   the four- day war  for the Defense Army, and an ambulance car were   also found. They were donated to the Defense Army by representatives   of the Armenian community of Russia, which Grigoryan registered as   property of his relatives and transported to his own vehicle fleet.