YEREVAN. – A group of demonstrators on Monday are staging a protest outside the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia.

The Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent at the scene reported that these protesters demand that MP and retired General Manvel Grigoryan immediately be remanded in custody again.

“Such a person, to whom the NSS [the National Security Service] has filed charges—based on several material evidences—on embezzlement and several other counts, cannot be in freedom,” said one demonstrator. “There is a risk that this person could provoke, instigate some incidents in Etchmiadzin [Vagharshapat city where he lives.”

Late evening on December 21, the capital city Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction released Manvel Grigoryan from custody on an AMD 25mn (approx. US$51,600) bail.

Grigoryan was arrested on June 19. He is charged with unlawfully keeping weapons and ammunition, and committing large-scale embezzlement. In particular, it is about the embezzlement of the aid that was sent during the days of the four-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), in April 2016.