35 Million Drams to Be Confiscated from Vladimir Gasparyan

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

As a reminder, on June 1, 2020, the former Chief of Police of the Republic of Armenia, Vladimir Gasparyan, was charged under Article 179, Part 3, Point 1 (embezzlement in particularly large amounts) (two episodes) and Article 308, Part 2 (abuse of official powers in aggravating circumstances) (two episodes) of the Criminal Code adopted on April 18, 2003.

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

The prosecutor also filed a civil lawsuit against the defendants: former Chief of Police of the RA Vladimir Gasparyan, former Deputy Chief of Police of the RA Levon Yeranosyan, former Head of the Internal Audit Department of the Police Vardan Tunyan, and former Commander of the Police Troops unit Gurgen Grigoryan, demanding:

to confiscate 35 million 200 thousand drams from defendant Vladimir Gasparyan in favor of the Republic of Armenia,

to confiscate 6 million 513 thousand drams from defendant Vardan Tunyan in favor of the Republic of Armenia,

to confiscate 7 million 954 thousand drams jointly and severally from defendants Levon Yeranosyan, Vardan Tunyan, and Gurgen Grigoryan in favor of the Republic of Armenia.

The Anti-Corruption Court, by its verdict of July 9, 2024:

Found defendant Vladimir Gasparyan guilty of committing a crime under Article 308, Part 1 of the Criminal Code adopted on April 18, 2003 (two episodes) and released him from criminal liability on the grounds of the expiration of the statute of limitations. Vladimir Gasparyan was also found guilty of committing a crime under Article 256, Part 3, Point 3 of the current Criminal Code (embezzlement of entrusted property in particularly large amounts) (two episodes), and for each episode, he was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment.

By partially summing up the main punishments of imprisonment for each episode, a final main punishment of 6 years of imprisonment was imposed on Vladimir Gasparyan. By applying Article 2, Part 2, Point 5 of the RA Law "On Declaring Amnesty in Criminal Cases on the Occasion of the 2800th Anniversary of the Founding of Erebuni-Yerevan and the 100th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the First Republic of Armenia," which entered into force on November 6, 2018, defendant Vladimir Gasparyan was released from serving the sentence of imprisonment.

Defendants Levon Yeranosyan, Vardan Tunyan, and Gurgen Grigoryan were also found guilty, released from criminal liability on the grounds of the expiration of the statute of limitations, and, including as a result of the application of amnesty, were released from serving the sentences of imprisonment.

The civil lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor's Office was partially satisfied.

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

On May 27, 2025, the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal decided to partially overturn the verdict of the Anti-Corruption Court of July 9, 2024, and to issue a new judicial act in the overturned part. Specifically, by the judicial act of the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal, Vardan Tunyan was acquitted in one episode, and the criminal prosecution against him was terminated on the basis of Article 12, Part 1, Point 1 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which entered into force on July 1, 2022.

The prosecutor's demand to confiscate 35 million drams from Vladimir Gasparyan to the state budget of the RA as compensation for the damage caused by the crimes was fully satisfied.

At the same time, the civil lawsuit for 7 million 954 thousand drams against Levon Yeranosyan, Vardan Tunyan, and Gurgen Grigoryan, which was satisfied by the Anti-Corruption Court, was left without a solution (the Prosecutor's Office will file a civil lawsuit in the near future), and the lawsuit for 6 million drams against Vardan Tunyan was partially satisfied. The verdict was left unchanged in the remaining part.

On July 23, 2025, the Prosecutor's Office filed a cassation appeal, which was not accepted for proceedings.

Thus, the judicial act of the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal has entered into legal force: 35 million drams will be confiscated from the former Chief of Police of the RA, Vladimir Gasparyan, in favor of the Republic of Armenia.

As a reminder, today the Prosecutor General's Office sent a motion to the director of the "Sevan National Park" SNCO regarding taking measures to terminate the contract for the land plot registered in the name of the mother-in-law of the former Chief of Police of the RA, Vladimir Gasparyan, located in the Drahktik settlement.