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Today the Criminal Court of Appeal under the presidency of Armen Danielyan, rejected all the appeal claims regarding the case on state treason.

Thus, the Court left the judgment from April 6 of Mnatsakan Hakobyan, the judge of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Center and Nork-Marash Administrative Districts, unchanged, which found the defendant Karen Mehrabyan guilty with the charge of state treason in accordance with Article 299, Section 1 of the RA Criminal Code and sentenced him to 13 years of imprisonment along with confiscation of the half of his property.

The defendant Romik Matevosyan was also found guilty in accordance with Article 299, Section 1 of the RA Criminal Code and was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment without property confiscation. The defendant Ashot Chtrakyan was found guilty for supporting the state treason and was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment without property confiscation. The defendants Karen Petrosyan and Arthur Avetiqyan were found guilty in not informing about the crime in accordance with Article 335, Section 1 of the RA Criminal Code and were sentenced to 1, 5 years of imprisonment. The defendant David Avetiqyan was also found guilty in accordance with Article 335, Clause 1 and was fined in the amount of the 500-fold of the minimum wage, i.e. 500,000 AMD.

As a reminder, the defendants Karen Mehrabyan, Romik Mstevosyan, Karen Petrosyan, Ashot Chtrakyan, Arthur Avetiqyan, David Avetiqyan demanded to overrule the judgment of the Court of General Jurisdiction, to terminate the prosecution or totally reverse the judicial act and send the case to the relevant lower court for a new inquiry, defining the scope of it.