Tomorrow, on October 28, Davit Hambardzumyan, the head of Masis, will return to Yerevan from a business trip to Moscow, and the head of the opposition community will be arrested at the airport. According to the judgment made by judge Zhora Chichoyan, on October 23, the verdict to detain Hambardzumyan for a period of 6 years and 3 months was published. The judge canceled the bail in the 7-year-old case and imposed detention as a preventive measure.
Since 2018, the only RPA community leader who has been re-elected after the establishment of the CP government in Armenia is accused of resisting the wave of the 2018 revolution, more precisely, for allegedly using violence against Pashinyan's supporters rushing from Hayanist village to Republic Square on April 22, 2018, and obstructing the movement of people.
Davit Hambardzumyan, who has the status of accused in a criminal case initiated in 2019, does not accept the charges brought against him and both he and the opposition forces consider that he and all active figures are being politically persecuted by the government of the day, at this stage it was necessary to isolate Davit Hambardzumyan from the political processes at all costs, before the 2026 national elections, active figures obstructing Pashinyan's re-election are a risk for Pashinyan. to be re-elected.
And Davit Hambardzumyan is the candidate for the prime minister of the opposition to express no confidence in Pashinyan, in the political process of impeachment of Nikol Pashinyan nominated by RPA. It is noteworthy that Davit Hambardzumyan's arrest follows the noisy incidents of the arrest of the elected mayor of Gyumri, Vardan Ghukasyan, and high-ranking churchmen, and in the coming days, according to the news, the leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Vehapar Hayrapet, will be the next target. It is said that the Chichoyan family waited for this decision of the young judge Chichoyan in the judicial system with a much bigger dream than the government mansion. 30-year-old judge Zhora Chichoyan, a representative of the dynasty of judges, is waiting for a large and valuable reward for detaining Davit Hambardzumyan.
According to our source in the law enforcement system, the judge who pleased Pashinyan with this decision was promised a bright future. Mnatsakan Martirosyan's term of office will soon expire, and then young Chichoyan will become the next president of the Yerevan General Jurisdiction Criminal Court.
The name of Zhora Chichoyan, 30-year-old judge of the first-instance general jurisdiction criminal court of Yerevan city, is one of the active ones circulating in the media, not only after a series of noisy trials, but especially because of his personal and family connections in the judiciary.
Zhora Chichoyan's uncle, Sergey Chichoyan, was a member of the Central Committee, now he is one of the judges of the anti-corruption chamber of the Court of Cassation, he is in the judicial composition of the investigation of corruption crimes, and his father, Armen Chichoyan, is the prosecutor of Shirak marz.
