On 12 June 2026, the prosecutor submitted to court, with the approved indictment, the files of the criminal proceedings concerning G.S., charged with establishing a criminal organization and committing kidnapping, and S.G. and S.K., charged with participating in a criminal organization and committing kidnapping as members thereof.

In these proceedings, on 25 November 2025, the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia had overturned the decision to terminate the criminal proceedings, while the supervising prosecutor had overturned the decisions of 29 September 2025 on terminating the criminal prosecution against the aforementioned persons.

The criminal proceedings established that, in 2024, G.S., with the aim of resolving property-related disputes between citizens, had established and led a criminal organization consisting of three or more persons, in which, i.a., S.G. and S.K. also participated.

In November 2024, A.S., a resident of Armavir region, approached members of the criminal organization, in particular G.S. and S.G., asking them to have AMD 11,931,850, which his wife had transferred on 29 April and 14 June 2024 to the bank account of a limited liability company for the purpose of importing a vehicle from abroad, returned by the director of the company.

With the aim of resolving through criminal means the civil-law dispute that had arisen between A.S. and the director of the limited liability company, members of the criminal organization, G.S., S.G. and S.K., repeatedly called and visited the company’s office in November and December 2024 and threatened the company’s director with violence and causing harm to his health.

During one of the visits to the company’s office, on 27 December 2024, S.G. and S.K., with the aim of exerting pressure on the company’s director and recovering the aforementioned amount, kidnapped an employee of the company, transported him to Yerevan, and called the company’s director, demanding that he return the remaining amount owed by A.S. as a condition for releasing the employee.

As a result of the aforementioned actions, the members of the criminal organization received portions of the money from the company’s director and transferred them to A.S., while, at A.S.’s suggestion, they retained AMD 1,194,000 from the returned amount as illegal remuneration. The remaining amount of the debt was returned by the company’s director to A.S. in instalments by bank transfer, under the influence of threats and pressure exerted by the aforementioned members of the criminal group.

The prosecutor initiated public criminal prosecution against members of the criminal organization S.G. and S.K. under part 1 of Article 319 and point 1 of part 3 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code, for participating in a criminal organization and committing kidnapping as members thereof. (The preliminary investigation is ongoing with regard to the remaining part.)

On 12 June 2026, the prosecutor, with the approved indictment, submitted the files of the proceedings to the competent court.

Notice:  A person charged with any crime shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty in the manner prescribed by the RA Criminal Procedure Code—by the judgment came into legal force.