Tigran Sahakyan, son of former deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia Galust Sahakyan, is charged with infliction of damage to property through deception or abuse of confidence and forgery of evidence by a person or his or her representative participating in a civil case. Sahakyan’s attorney Emin Khachatryan told Armenian News-NEWS.am that his client has been interviewed twice and stated that he doesn’t accept the charge brought against him.

“The charge is absurd and groundless. The dates of the criminal case have expired. Since my client doesn’t accept the charge, the court is having trouble dismissing the case. We have stated that we don’t accept the charge and that it is even incomprehensible to a certain extent,” Khachatryan said, adding that a signature to not leave has been selected as a pre-trial measure against Sahakyan.

“It is stated that in 2003, Tigran Sahakyan applied to Yerevan Municipality, asking the latter to allocate an additional plot of land for alienation of property and acknowledge the right of ownership of the land, and upon the decision of the municipality, the plot of land was provided to Sahakyan. It is also stated that for the purpose of falsifying evidence under a civil case, Sahakyan had submitted a statement of claim to court with the demand that the court obliges Yerevan Municipality to alienate the land plots to him in the form of direct sale and that Sahakyan had presented false evidence to the court. We tell the court to present the evidence, but it isn’t providing it. Sahakyan hasn’t attended the court hearings,” the attorney said and added that in that period, Tigran Sahakyan was a businessman and didn’t hold any state position.

Asked if there is a testimony underlying the charge, Khachatryan said he has petitioned for a confrontation, but there is no progress.