The Anti-Corruption Court of Appeals of Armenia has upheld the Prosecutor's Office's appeal, overturned the court of first instance's judicial act on acquitting former President Serzh Sargsyan and others, and sent the case for a new trial, the Prosecutor General's Office informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

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 Armenian 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 of Armenia, however, had not accepted the charges against him, and his lawyers had said that this process was a political persecution against their client.