ArmInfo. A criminal case hasbeen opened in part 1 of Article 315 of the RA Criminal Code (official negligence) on the fact of crossing the state border of Armenia by judge Samvel Uzunyan.
The RA General Prosecutor confirms this information.
To recall, Judge Samvel Uzunyan was put on the wanted list after it became known about his departure from Armenia. Earlier, the Supreme Judicial Council of the RA granted the petition for criminal prosecution and imprisonment of Judge Samvel Uzunyan. For its part, the court granted the motion to choose a preventive measure in the form of arrest.
In 2004-2016 Uzunyan was the chairman of the court of general jurisdiction of the administrative districts Avan and Nor Nork, and since the summer of 2016 - the judge of the court of general jurisdiction of the first instance of the Aragatsotn region. The media connect the criminal prosecution of Uzunyan, who was also a judge in the case of the terrorist act in parliament on October 27, 1999, with a recent NSS report on the detection of bribery cases in 2007-2009 from senior officials whose namesare not disclosed to date.