armtimes.com «Strong Armenia» party member Alik Aleksanyan will remain in custody.
The Court of Appeals has rejected the motion to change the measure of restraint applied to Aleksanyan:
We previously reported that a public criminal prosecution had been initiated against Alik Aleksanyan, who was arrested and subsequently detained:
According to law enforcement agencies, Alik Aleksanyan, a supporter of «Strong Armenia», has been the founder and head of the executive body of the NGO «In Our Way of Preserving National Values» since September 9, 2025. He has participated in protests and gatherings organized in Armenia by supporters of Samvel Karapetyan, the NGO «In Our Way», and the «Strong Armenia» party from September 2025 to May 2026, while formally disguising his true intentions by employing around 1400 citizens at the offices of the NGO «In Our Way» operating in various locations in Armenia under the guise of civil law, including service contracts, with more than 400 of them also working in other companies concurrently.
During the pre-trial investigation, it was revealed that from October 8, 2025, to March 31, 2026, approximately 1.6 billion AMD, 230,000 euros, and 75,000 US dollars obtained from criminal activities were transferred to the bank accounts of the NGO «In Our Way» from the «Tashir» charitable foundation, which is connected to Samvel Karapetyan, and from the companies «Intego Energo» and «Tashir Capital» as «donations» and «loan provisions»:
Alik Aleksanyan, during the same period, sought to legitimize the particularly large sums of money of criminal origin under the pretext of legal activities by materially incentivizing the employed citizens to participate in protests and gatherings organized in Armenia by supporters of Samvel Karapetyan, the NGO «In Our Way», and «Strong Armenia» from September 2025 to May 2026, by paying them as salaries for one or more months and under the guise of service payments.
As a result, the vast majority of the employed citizens did not attend work or visited the organizations' offices only once or a few times a month, often not even realizing the nature and purpose of their roles in the NGO. Later, Alik Aleksanyan dismissed these employees without fulfilling the goals of the NGO as stipulated in the charter.
Thus, from the funds transferred to the accounts of the NGO as salaries and other equivalent payments obtained through Alik Aleksanyan's criminal activities, 703 million 835 thousand 953 AMD was allocated, while 59 million 428 thousand 521 AMD was allocated as remuneration under civil law contracts, totaling 763 million 264 thousand 474 AMD.
During the pre-trial investigation, numerous procedural and evidentiary actions were carried out, and about 500 individuals were interrogated.
By the decision of the supervising prosecutor, a public criminal prosecution has been initiated against Alik Aleksanyan under Part 2 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code (materially incentivizing participation in a gathering) and under Point 3 of Part 3 of Article 296 (money laundering of particularly large amounts).
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