Court session of Armenia’s third president postponed

The court session on the criminal case against third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has been postponed today.

Sargsyan’s lawyer Amram Makinyan applied to the court saying that he took COVID-19 test and has not received the answer yet. He asked the court to postpone the court hearing

The judge also read the petition by Serzh Sargsyan's other lawyer, Ruben Hakobyan, asking the court to recognize Sargsyan’s absence from this court hearing as respectful.

The court considered the absence of  Serzh Sargsyan from the court session disrespectful.

The next court hearing in the case of Serzh Sargsyan and others was scheduled for September 3.

The criminal case also involves Flash fuel company owner of Barsegh Beglaryan, former Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan, former Deputy Minister of Agriculture Samvel Galstyan, and Gevorg Harutyunyan, Head of the Plant Breeding Department of the same ministry,

According to the indictment of this criminal case, being organized by Sargsyan, pushed by Beglaryan, and assisted by Galstyan and Harutyunyan, Karapetyan had wasted - from January 25 to February 7, 2013 - AMD 489,160,310 of subsidy allocated from the government's reserve fund for the 15,391,765 liters of diesel fuel that was used during the implementation of state assistance programs.