The Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia has appealed the court decision to acquit third president Serzh Sargsyan. This was informed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, adding that the aforesaid decision has been appealed to the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal.

On May 31, a lower court announced its verdict on Serzh Sargsyan's case, according to which he was acquitted on the basis of absence of corpus delicti.

According to the indictment, being organized by Serzh Sargsyan, pushed by Barsegh Beglaryan, the owner of Flash fuel company, and assisted by former Deputy Minister of Agriculture Samvel Galstyan and Gevorg Harutyunyan, former Minister of Agriculture, the late Sergo Karapetyan had squandered—from January 25 to February 7, 2013—489,160,310 drams of subsidy allocated from the government's reserve fund for the 15,391,765 liters of diesel fuel that was used during the implementation of state assistance programs.

Serzh Sargsyan was charged under the Criminal Code articles on large-scale embezzlement or squandering, and taking large bribes. The third president, however, had not accepted the charges against him, and his lawyers had said that this process was a political persecution against their client.