This case of "falling from the sky" is about giving a criminal appearance to the ordinary administrative-legal relations between a state body and a citizen, according to lawyers regarding the case of Ishkhan Saghatelyan.
This case of "falling from the sky" is about giving a criminal appearance to the ordinary administrative-legal relations between a state body and a citizen, according to lawyers regarding the case of Ishkhan Saghatelyan.
24-06-2026 19:00:45 | Armenia | Human Rights
tert.am We became acquainted with the charges presented against Ishkhan Saghatelyan on the Facebook page of the RA Investigative Committee. Legal reasoning regarding criminal proceedings with political motives and purposes has long lost its meaning. The law and these proceedings have definitively and irreversibly severed all ties with each other. This was stated in a statement released by Ishkhan Saghatelyan's legal team.
«We might not have made this response if the propaganda machine, which is an inseparable companion of political affairs, had not been activated since yesterday.
«This 'case out of thin air' is about giving a criminal appearance to the ordinary administrative-legal relations between a state body and a citizen.
For the first time, we are encountering a situation where a person who submitted a relevant declaration is accused of not submitting that declaration a month after its submission.
For the first time, we are facing a situation where a person who reveals the location of certain property before a state body is accused of hiding that property.
After all this, we believe it is unnecessary to mention that the state bodies would never have known about the existence of the 60 thousand US dollars in cash that served as the basis for this uproar if Ishkhan Saghatelyan had not declared it in a timely manner, as required by law, nor would they have known the location of the money if Ishkhan Saghatelyan had not informed them in writing about it.
PS: The relevant political instructions have been public, we have all heard them, and the addressees are carrying them out...»,-
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