General Prosecutor`s Office appeals against acquittal of Serzh Sargsyan
ArmInfo. The Armenian Prosecutor General's Office has appealed the acquittal verdict of the 3rd President Serzh Sargsyan to the Anti-Corruption Appeals Court. This was reported by the press service of the agency. On May 31, 2024, the court acquitted the former president after more than four years of trial, refuting the prosecutor's accusation that Serzh Sargsyan had organized the embezzlement of about half a billion drams from the state budget during his presidency.
Despite the prosecutor's office's insistence that Barsegh Beglaryan, a businessman close to former President Serzh Sargsyan, won the tender in 2013 under the state program to provide farmers with affordable diesel fuel, by offering the highest price, the court found the deal to be legal. The court also acquitted other defendants - Barsegh Beglaryan, the owner of the Flash company, and Gevorg Harutyunyan, who headed the Department of Plant Production at the Ministry of Agriculture in 2013. The former Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetyan and his deputy Samvel Galstyan were also accused in the case, but both had previously died of coronavirus. Sargsyan himself said that the decision had