YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. Hovik Arsenian, the defender of Alexandre Arzumanian, the former RA Minister of Foreign Affairs, appealed to the Criminal Court of Appeal on September 3 against the August 31 decision of the Court of First Instance of the Kentron and Nork-Marash communities of Yerevan on prolonging the detention term of his defendant for two more months. It should be mentioned that Alexandre Arzumanian has been put under arrest since May 10 on the charge of "Legalizing incomes received through criminal ways". According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by Sona Truzian, the Spokeswoman of the RA Prosecutor General, investigation activities are currently being carried out in Moscow within the frameworks of the case. The investigation group will return to Armenia one of these days.

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