David Stepanyan

Written by Veles Human Rights NGO on January 27, 2017. Posted in Cases.

Stepanyan’s case

David Stepanyan is one of the victims of illegal activities of Hovhannes Yeritsyan, the former head of Civic Aviation. He borrowed $900.000 USD from him and paid back $1.450.000 USD in total only as percentage ($216.000 per year). Stepanyan was threatened not only by Yeritsyan (who feared him saying that the part of the money lent to him was a KGB general’s), but also by the former Member of the Parliament, a friend of Yeritsyan. In the result he got nervous breakdown and was put in hospital, having a heart operation. «Veles» NGO has been representing Stepanyan’s interests in law enforcement bodies and in the courts.

12.02.2016 David Stepanyan applied to «Veles» NGO for legal assistance

01.04.2016 with our legal aid David Stepanyan made a complaint to General Prosecutor

06.05.2016 David Stepanyan’s complaint was rejected

23.05.2016 our organization made a complaint on rejection on Stepanyan’s complaint

01.06.2016 our complaint was satisfied and a criminal case was opened and the investigation began. We were representing Stepanyan’s interests at investigation

10.11.2016 the case was illegaly closed based on the investigators decision

22.11.2016 our organization made a complaint to prosecutor’s office against the investigators decision from 10.11.2016

01.12.2016 the prosecutor’s office rejected our complaint. We applied with the rightful demand to reopen the case against Yeritsyan based on Stepanyan’s claim

27.12.2016 we applied to the court against the prosecutor’s illegal rejection

The court hearings on David Stemanyan’s case in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork Marash Administrative Districts of RA (judge M.Makyan)

30.01.2017թ. ժամը 10:30

23.02.2017թ. ժամը 10:30

14.03.2017թ. ժամը 10:30

There were several court hearings at court and we won the case and 14.03.2017 the court made decision and abolished prosecutors decision

29.03.2017 the prosecutor made an appeal to Appeal Court against the decision to reopen the criminal case against Yeritsyan

The court hearings on David Stepanyan’s case in the Criminal Court of Appeal (judge M.Papoyan)

20.04.2017թ. ժամը 11:00

17.05.2017թ. ժամը 10:00

17.06.20172թ. ժամը 11:00

04.07.2017թ. ժամը 10:00

20.07.2017թ. ժամը 10:00

After five hearings at the Appeal Court 20.07.2017 we won the case and prosecutor’s complaint was rejected by the Court of Appeal and was made a decision to reopen the criminal case against Yeritsyan

15.08.2017 the prosecutor made an appeal to Court of Cassation with demand to close Yeritsyan’s criminal case but was also rejected

29.01.2018 the case against Yeritsyan reopened and now is on investigation.

We hold victory against Procuracy and their efforts to protect Yeritsyan were in vain.

Now we are representing Stepanyan at investigation

On 22 May, 2018, P. Grigoryan, the investigator of proceedings of criminal case No. 63203516, decided to suspend the criminal proceedings.

On 11 June, 2018, a complaint against the decision of suspending the criminal case of 22 May, 2018, was filed in the Prosecutor’s Office of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of Yerevan.

On 12 June, 2018, the Prosecutor’s Office of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of Yerevan made a decision to reject the appeal filed by Marina Poghosyan.

On 19 July, 2018, a complaint was filed in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan against the decision of 22 May, 2018, on suspending the criminal proceedings of criminal case No. 63203516

The court hearings on David Stemanyan’s case in the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction (judges A.Tadevosyan. A.Danibekyan)

03.08.2018- 15:30

16.08.2018- 14:00

03.09.2018- 17:00

09.10.2018- 17:00

03.11.2018- 11:00

Media coverage on his case can be found at:

03.11.2018 Դատավոր Դանիբեկյանը կոծկում է ՞ նախկին չինովնիկի կոռուպցիոն իրավախախտումները

https://acblog.am/?p=1685

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=301Z23Jk45g

05.02.2018 Two more court decisions have been made against Kocharyan’s cadre

http://veles.am/en/two-more-court-decisions-have-been-made-against-kocharyans-cadre/