YEREVAN. – The investigation into the criminal case brought against the Gevorgyan family, which had fled to Azerbaijan, is completed, and the case is sent to court. 

Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned the aforesaid from the judicial information system of Armenia.

According to the indictment, on January 10, 2010, Yeghishe Gevorgyan—together with his wife, Ruzanna Mardanyan, and three underage children—drove with his vehicle, and under high speed, toward the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, did not obey the border guards’ cautionary measures, and crossed into Azerbaijan.  

The Gevorgyan family had returned to Armenia on December 12, 2014.

Criminal charges have been brought against Gevorgyan and his wife. A signature bond on not leaving Armenia has been enforced as their restraining order.

Yeghishe Gevorgyan had been convicted eight times prior to this incident. And at the time of illegally crossing the border, he was suspected of involvement in a serious crime.