Manwel Grigoryan

Manwel Sectori Grigoryan ( Armenian Մանվել Սեկտորի Գրիգորյան , born July 14, 1956 in the province of Armavir ) is a former Armenian general and former independent member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia in the faction of the Republican Party .

biography

He is the son of Sector Grigoryan. Grigoryan served from 1975 to 1977 in the Soviet army and participated in 1992-1993 as commander of the volunteer battalion of Echmiadzin on Nagorno-Karabakh war . In 1993 he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in command of the 83rd Brigade. In the same year Grigoryan graduated from Stepanakert State University and 5 years later from the Faculty of Law at Yerevan State University . In 1996, he took a training course to become a military commander in the Military Academy of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia. He was then appointed commander of the first military corps of the Armenian Ministry of Defense and was given the character of major general . In 2000 Grigoryan was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia and remained in that position until 2008.

In March 2012, Grigoryan was elected on a proportional basis as a candidate for the Republican Party in the National Assembly of Armenia.

On June 18, 2018, Grigoryan was arrested by the Armenian police along with a group of high-ranking state officials for illegal possession of weapons and ammunition and for misappropriating food. The day before, the National Security Service of Armenia released the video recording of the search of Grigoryan's luxury villa and warehouses in Yerevan . It included large amounts of illegal ammunition seized, dozens of packages of donated food labeled “for soldiers”, which were intended for Armenian soldiers during the military clashes between the Armenian and Azerbaijani army units in Nagorno-Karabakh in April 2016, as well as military underwear, hygiene items, cash, etc. to see. The confiscated items also included a large collection of old and modern models of cars and motorcycles. Investigations also revealed that Grigoryan had fed the bears and tigers in his private zoo with donated food for soldiers. After scandalous revelations and the imprisonment of Grigoryan, his son, the mayor of Vagarshapat (Echmiadzin), Karen Grigoryan, was forced to resign.

In response to Grigorjans arrest, the State Department of took Azerbaijan a position by Grigorjan the war crimes , looting of property of Azerbaijani population during the occupation of towns Fizuli and Dschebrajil in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in the early 1990s and participation in the Khojaly Massacre accused . Grigoryan once said that he did not recognize the Geneva Convention on International Humanitarian Law . The Azerbaijani side also referred to a 2014 interview by Grigoryan with Radio Free Europe in which he claimed to have returned to Armenia with hundreds of Azerbaijani prisoners of war from the Karabakh War. He is said to have employed this as a slave labor in his apartment later.

On June 19, 2018, at the request of the Armenian Public Prosecutor's Office, MPs voted with an overwhelming majority for the lifting of Grigoryan's immunity . Legal proceedings have been initiated against him.

Private

Manwel Grigorjan is married and has eight children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia | Official Web Site | parliament.am. Retrieved June 28, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Armenia's National Assembly Member Arrested Over Large Corruption Case. Accessed June 28, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Armenian 'hero' general arrested for stealing military aid. Retrieved June 28, 2018 (American English). 
4. ↑ Кавказский Узел: Armenian parliament deprives Manvel Grigoryan of MP's immunity . In: Caucasian Knot . ( kavkaz-uzel.eu [accessed June 29, 2018]).
5. ↑ Григорян Манвел Секторович. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .