Arrested employee of State Control Service tried to establish rule of law: attorney

Head of State Control Service Samvel Adyan is still under arrest, attorney Davit Mnatsakanyan told Aysor.am. He said he was at the NSS investigative department and participates in examination.

He said Adyan is suspected in abusing the authorities which resulted in grave consequences.

“Now I may only say that Samvel Adyan tries to establish rule of law so that no company had dominating position but with unknown reasons an opposite thing occurred. Now materials are being prepared,” the attorney said.

To the comment that the materials were sent to the NSS by health minister Arsen Torosyan, the attorney said, “The wind blows from there.”

Charges have not been brought against Adyan yet and soon the time of his arrest will expire. Asked what they are going to do, the attorney said everything not banned by the law.

The second arrested employee is Gevorg Khachatryan. His attorney Arman Arzumanyan was not available for the comment.

Speaking to Hetq, he said earlier that the function of his defendant is to control the legality of tenders in the State Control Service. He also is accused of abuse of power which resulted in grave consequences. Khachatryan does not admit the accusations too.