Examination of Motion to Increase Former Police Chief’s Prison Term Postponed

Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) today appealed to the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Districts of Yerevan to increase the term of imprisonment for former head of the RA Police General Department of Criminal Intelligence Hovhannes Tamamyan (pictured).

 

As a SIS representative informed Epress.am, the court today postponed examination of the motion, but the next court date has not yet been assigned.

 

Recall, on Feb. 23, RA Police Chief Alik Sargsyan petitioned RA General Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan regarding Tamamyan’s and chief of Arabkir police department V. Adamyan’s suitability of a future term in office. Tamamyan was later dismissed from his post, and then arrested.

 

According to a Mar. 2 press release on the RA General Prosecutor’s official website, “Hovhannes Tamamyan and Varazdat Adamyan failed to do their duties and undertake necessary measures to reveal a crime which led to the distortion and fraud of the significant circumstances of the investigation of the criminal case as well as to the distortion of the actions taken by the participants of the crime.”

 

Tamamyan is accused of abusing his authority in the May 12, 2010 murder of 23-year-old Khachik Mkrtchyan.

 

Photo: RFE/RL’s Armenian service