AMD 35 million will be confiscated from the former Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan in favor of the Republic of Armenia: the judicial act has entered into legal force.

It should be recalled that on June 1, 2020, the former Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan was charged under point 1 of part 3 of Article 179 (embezzlement on a particularly large scale) and part 2 of Article 308 (abuse of official powers under aggravating circumstances) of the Criminal Code, adopted on April 18, 2003.

On June 24, 2020, the prosecutor submitted the separated part of the criminal case, with the approved indictment, to the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction of the Yerevan city.

The prosecutor also filed a civil claim against the defendants—former Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan, former Deputy Police Chief Levon Yeranosyan, former Head of the Internal Audit Department of the Police Vardan Tunyan and former Commander of the Police Troops Ghurgen Grigoryan—under the following claims:

• To confiscate AMD 35 million 200 thousand from the defendant Vladimir Gasparyan in favor of the Republic of Armenia,
• To confiscate AMD 6 million 513 thousand from the defendant Vardan Tunyan in favor of the Republic of Armenia,
• To confiscate AMD 7 million 954 thousand from the defendant Levon Yeranosyan, Vardan Tunyan and Gurgen Grigoryan in favor of the Republic of Armenia.

Pursuant to the verdict of the Anti-Corruption Court, dated July 9, 2024:

• Defendant Vladimir Gasparyan was found guilty under part 1 of Article 308 of the Criminal Code, adopted on April 18, 2003 (two counts) but was exempted from criminal liability due to the statute of limitations. Vladimir Gasparyan was also found guilty under point 3 of part 3 of Article 256 (embezzlement of entrusted property on a particularly large scale/two counts) of the current Criminal Code. He was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment for each count. By partially combining the sentences for each count, his final principal sentence was 6 years of imprisonment. However, under the application of point 5 of part 2 of Article 2 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On Proclaiming Amnesty on Criminal Matters on Occasion of the 2800^th Anniversary of Erebuni Yerevan and 100^th Anniversary of Independence of the First Republic,” /which entered into force on November 6, 2018/ the defendant Vladimir Gasparyan was exempted from serving his sentence.

• Defendants Levon Yeranosyan, Vardan Tunyan and Ghurgen Grigoryan were also found guilty but exempted from criminal liability due to the statute of limitations. Additionally, as a result of the amnesty, they were released from serving their sentences.

The civil claim filed by the Prosecutor’s Office was partially granted.

On August 16, 2024, the prosecutor filed an appeal for review.

On May 27, 2025, the Anti-Corruption Court of Appels decided to partially overturn the Anti-Corruption Court’s judgment, dated July 9, 2024, and to issue a new judicial act regarding the overturned part. In particular, according to the judicial act of the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeals, Vardan Tunyan was acquitted of one count, and criminal prosecution against him was terminated based on point 1 of part 1 of Article 12 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which entered into force on July 1, 2022.

The prosecutor’s claim to recover AMD 35 million from Vladimir Gasparyan to the state budget of the Republic of Armenia as compensation for damage caused by criminal actions was fully granted.

At the same time, the civil claim for AMD 7,954,000 filed against Levon Yeranosyan, Vardan Tunyan and Gurgen Grigoryan, which had been partially granted by the Anti-Corruption Court, was left unresolved (the Prosecutor’s Office will submit a civil claim in the future), while the civil claim against Vardan Tunyan for AMD 6 million was partially granted. The rest of the judgment remained unchanged.

On July 23, 2025, the Prosecutor’s Office filed a cassation appeal, which was not admitted for consideration.

Thus, the decision of the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeals has entered into legal force. AMD 35 million will be confiscated from former RA Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan in favor of the Republic of Armenia.

It should be noted that the Prosecutor General’s Office has today sent a motion to the director of the “Sevan National Park” SNCO for taking measures to terminate the contract for a land plot in the village of Drakhtik registered in the name of the mother of the wife of former RA Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan.