Law enforcement officers raiding Izmirlyan Medical Center director`s  office 

ArmInfo.  Law enforcement officers are conducting a search in the office of Armen Charchyan, director of the Izmirlyan Medical Center. Lawyer Erik Aleksanyan announced this on his Facebook page.

The Investigative Committee of Armenia confirmed the search to  ArmInfo but did not specify the criminal case under which it is being  conducted. Further details were unavailable at the time of  publication.

As a reminder, Armen Charchyan, a well-known physician and former  National Assembly member from the opposition Armenia faction, was  previously charged with voter bribery and coercing Izmirlyan Medical  Center employees to vote in the snap elections to the National  Assembly on June 20, 2021. A month after being released on bail, he  was arrested for a second time, after which he was released on bail  in December 2021. He resigned his parliamentary mandate in 2023. On  February 5, 2024, the Yerevan Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction,  presided over by Judge Vahe Misakyan, found Armen Charchyan guilty of  the alleged offense and sentenced him to four years in prison.  However, given Charchyan's time in custody, the final sentence was  imposed: imprisonment for three years, seven months, and 13 days.

The court, however, decided not to impose a suspended sentence on  Charchyan, setting a probationary period of three years. The  prosecutor's office therefore filed a motion with the Court of  Appeals, but the court rejected it, partially granting the defense's  motion to reduce the probationary period from three years to one  year.