Wednesday, October 30 2019 16:49

ArmInfo. Head of the Public Council, Vazgen Manukyan, admitted that he was surprised at the criminal case against parliamentary Speaker Ara Babloyan. At a press  conference on October 30, Manukyan said the charges are based on a  <wrong semicolon>.

As for the head of the Constitutional Court, Hrayr Tovmasyan, it was  stated here that the authorities were persecuting him in order to get  this position. According to Manukyan, prior to his appointment,  Tovmasyan was "checked by X-ray, and nothing was found". "This means  that this person is clean and not corrupt," the head of the Public  Council noted.

It should be noted that the Investigative Committee of Armenia found  factual evidence of abuses committed by the current head of the  Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan  during his tenure as head of the Ministry of Justice. In the  framework of the criminal case, in addition to Hrayr Tovmasyan, the  charge under part 2 of article 308 of the Criminal Code of Armenia is  an abuse of official powers, entailing by negligence, grave  consequences were also brought against Norayr Panosyan, who in  2011-2014 held the post of head of the Inspectorate for the Legality  of the Ministry of Justice.

In addition, according to the report of the Special Investigation  Service, there is evidence that in March 2018, in the process of  Gagik Harutyunyan's resignation of the powers of the Chairman of the  Constitutional Court, officials, based on group interests, personally  and also through non-officials committed an official forging to  appoint Hrayr Tovmasyan to the post of head of the Constitutional  Court.  In fact, a criminal case was initiated on usurpation of  power, in the framework of which charges were brought against  ex-speaker of the parliament Ara Babloyan and head of the  parliament's apparatus Arsen Babayan.