The Armavir court sentenced Gevorg Nersisyan to 2 years 5 months and his son Hambardzum to 3 years 5 months, but conditionally left the first sentence unapplied and deferred the second under a probation arrangement.
Civic.am, a news site close to Armenia’s governing Civil Contract party, said the Armavir Regional Court of General Jurisdiction set a probation period for Gevorg Nersisyan and conditionally left his prison sentence unapplied. For his son Hambardzum, it deferred application of the sentence and set probation until his newborn daughter turns 6.
Gevorg Nersisyan is the brother of Catholicos Karekin II; Hambardzum is the Catholicos’s nephew. The case concerns accusations of obstructing election campaigning and hooliganism during the Vagharshapat elections. Judge Gevorg Manukyan presided over the court.
The allegedly obstructed campaign was that of Hanrapetutyun party mayoral candidate Harutyun Mkrtchyan. In an earlier account by Azatutyun, Mkrtchyan said a member of his campaign was insulted and told to leave the village of Voskehat while announcing a meeting near Gevorg Nersisyan’s home. He also alleged that threats later dispersed residents gathered for the meeting.
The Nersisyans’ lawyer, Ara Zohrabyan, disputed the accusation. He said home security footage showed the two men speaking with a campaign representative and parting peacefully. Mkrtchyan questioned why the footage had no sound and said the allegations concerned insults and threats, not physical violence.
The Home Affairs Ministry said police warned Huang after assessing that she downplayed her company role. They found insufficient evidence that she committed offences involving suspected inaccurate server-purchase declarations.
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