Lawyer: Manvel Grigoryan`s willingness to transfer certain assets to  the state is a gesture of a man who always gave the Motherland more  than he took

ArmInfo. The arrested General  Manvel Grigoryan appealed to the government, announcing his readiness  to transfer to the state the territory of the Ankalich fish farm  belonging to him in the Aknalich community worth about 6 billion  drams, since he has a big heart. "This is a gesture of a man who  always gave the Motherland more than he took," Grigoryan's lawyer  Arsen Mkrtchyan explained his client's words.

As the lawyer explained, this is done in order to shame the  investigative body of accusing the general of "stealing grain,  meanwhile he is ready to donate whole bags of grain to the state".   Arsen Mkrtchyan urged not to consider this gesture as an attempt to  pay off. "The transfer of this property is Grigoryan's assistance to  the state, which he has always been doing. This is not an attempt to  bribe the state, but its way of life," Mkrtchyan stressed.

At the same time, the lawyer refrained from commenting on the  statement of the Special Investigation Service (SIS) of Armenia that  when examining the property certificates found in Grigoryan's mansion  during a search of the National Security Service, it turned out that  some of them were acquired with violations. According to him, on the  basis of this statement, it is impossible to say unequivocally that  transactions for the acquisition of this property can be called  invalid. "For many years, all the necessary state payments were  regularly carried out on these assets," Mkrtchyan said.

According to the lawyer, according to the information available to  him, not all local governments accepted the information about the  possible transfer of real estate objects owned by the general and  ex-deputy from the Republican Party with enthusiasm, since they do  not dispute the legality of the ownership of this property.

     To recall, Armenian MP, Republican Party member, General Manvel  Grigoryan was detained by NSS employees on June 16. In the framework  of a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 235  (illegal circulation  of weapons) of the Criminal Code of Armenia the NSS conducted a  search in the  mansion and rest zone owned by Manvel Grigoryan on     June 16. According to the source, the recreation area was turned  into    a  weapons warehouse, a garage of dozens of retro and modern  cars.     The  cottage in Aknalich village served for the general as  a  storehouse for food, hygiene products, medicines, military  uniforms,    on which was marked  "soldier rations". "From the  letters in the boxes addressed to servicemen, it is obvious that the  contents of     the boxes are the help  sent for soldiers to the  front line, in the    days of April war," the NSS press center  reported. During the search    of Manvel  Grigoryan's mansion, three  vehicles were found with    collections of modern high-priced cars,  retro cars, motorcycles and   snowmobiles.  A  number of off-road  cars, provided for in the days of    the four- day war  for the  Defense Army, and an ambulance car were    also found.  They were  donated to the Defense Army by representatives    of the Armenian  community of Russia, which Grigoryan registered as    property of his  relatives and transported to his own vehicle fleet.  Today, the Court  of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan retired to the deliberation room  to decide on the request of the preliminary investigation body for  the extension of the term of detention in custody for the fourth  time. The decision will be made public today. The defense side still  insists on changing the preventive measure in the form of an arrest  for a bail of 20 million drams.