The Criminal Court of Appeal of Armenia today denied the appeal against the decision of the first instance court on detaining former Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan, as reported Head of the Public Relations Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia.

Kostanyan’s attorneys had appealed the decision of the first instance court on detaining Kostanyan.

On September 25, the Special Investigation Service issued a statement on bringing a charge against ex-police chief Alik Sargsyan, and Kostanyan and ex-deputy police chief Gevorg Mheryan were touched upon in the charge.

Gevorg Kostanyan is charged for misuse of official position that has caused grave consequences, inciting official fraud, inciting concealment of grave or particularly grave crime and inciting concealment evidence under a criminal case regarding a grave or particularly grave crime.