Gevorg kostanyan biography sample

YEREVAN — Law-enforcement authorities requested on Thursday an arrest warrant for Armenia’s former Prosecutor-General Gevorg Kostanyan three days after indicting him in connection with the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.

The Special Investigative Service (SIS) has still not specified what exactly Kostanyan is accused of.

It only said on Monday that he was given 48 hours to return to Armenia and appear before SIS investigators.

Kostanyan, who now lives in Moscow, failed to meet that deadline, leading the SIS to put him on its most-wanted list. The law-enforcement agency said it also asked a Yerevan court to issue an arrest warrant for the man who served as the country’s chief prosecutor from 2013-2016.

Kostanyan deplored the “artificial” hastiness of his indictment when he spoke to RFE/RL’s Armenian service by phone on Monday.

He said he has repeatedly assured the investigators that he wi Gevorg Kostanyan - Havatqov em aprum / Գևորգ Կոստանյան ... VED