Vardan Ghukasyan`s case sent to  Anti-Corruption Court

ArmInfo. "The case against Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan, initiated on October 20, 2025, for political motives, has been sent to the Anti-Corruption Court of the  Republic of Armenia," Ghukasyan's lawyer, Zaruhi Postanjyan,  reported.

According to her, the courts in Armenia have so far applied  restrictions in the aforementioned proceedings against Vardan  Ghukasyan that violate the European Convention for the Protection of  Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

" Not only Vardan Ghukasyan, but also members of his family were  illegally subjected to wiretapping and hidden video recording (a  complex of operational-investigative measures, including digital  surveillance, including telephone conversation monitoring, internal  surveillance, and external surveillance using technical means). They  were then illegally arrested in humiliating and degrading conditions  and detained for two months.

Currently, Vardan Ghukasyan is being forcibly detained in unsanitary  and inhumane conditions, denied necessary medical care, and facing  obstacles to his right to freedom of conscience, religion, and  belief.  These illegalities were made possible by the judicial  decisions of Judges Zhora Chichoyan and Vardges Sargsyan," she wrote  on social media.

According to her, it is now the turn of 30-year-old Levon Petrosyan,  "whose judicial experience has not yet reached two months." "Judge  Levon Petrosyan has assumed responsibility of presiding over the  fabricated criminal case against Vardan Ghukasyan and has scheduled  the first preliminary hearing for December 17, 2025, at 2:00 PM at  the Anti-Corruption Court of the Republic of Armenia (address: 3/9  Tbilisi Highway, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia)," the lawyer noted.