YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Prosecutor General's Office has appealed the court decision to release retired general Manvel Grigoryan on bail, adviser to the Prosecutor General Gor Abrahamyan wrote on Facebook.

Late evening on December 21, the capital city Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction released Manvel Grigoryan from custody on a 25-million drams (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.