ArmInfo. Artsakh Ombudsman Artak Beglaryan and head of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia Avetik Ishkhanyan wrote to the criminal prosecution body with a proposal to change the preventive measure of Arsen Babayan under their personal guarantee. The lawyers of Babayan reported this.
In the criminal case of usurpation of power, charges were brought against the Speaker of the Parliament Ara Babloyan and the head of the parliament apparatus Arsen Babayan. As a preventive measure in respect of Babloyan, a recognizance not to leave was chosen, and in respect of Babayan - arrest was chosen. Earlier, the Special Investigation Service reported that there is evidence that in March 2018, in the process of Gagik Harutyunyan's resignation of the powers of the President of the Constitutional Court, officials, based on group interests, personally and also through non-officials committed official forgery, to appoint Hrayr Tovmasyan to the post of head of the Constitutional Court.