“Arayik Harutunyan has been arrested on charges of committing numerous terrorist crimes in Karabakh,” said Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s Office and the State Security Service in a joint statement, APA reports.
Based on the collected evidence, reasonable suspicions have arisen that Arayik Harutunyan Vladimiri, born in in the Azerbaijani city of Khankendi in 1973, has participated in the conduct of an aggressive war, recruitment, training and financing of mercenaries, as well as organizing their use in military conflict and military operations, violation of international humanitarian law norms during an armed conflict, and issuing criminal orders during an armed conflict in the territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan as the so-called “President of the Republic of the Nagorno-Karabakh” and other positions.
At the same time, reasonable suspicions have also established that Arayik Harutunyan was also involved in the formation and organization of the activities of armed groups that are not provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan, providing these groups with weapons, their complete parts, ammunition, explosives, military equipment and military supplies as a part of a criminal association, and the organization of training on using them, as well as sending these groups to the country by smuggling and the financing of terrorism.
As a result of investigative and operational measures, reasonable suspicions also arisen that Arayik Harutyunyan has also committed terrorist acts and numerous crimes by organizing terrorist attacks that resulted in the killing of numerous civilians and causing various degrees of injuries on civilian and military infrastructure by firing ballistic and other types of missiles that targeted residential areas and civilian objects in the densely populated city of Ganja and the Barda district of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Note that on October 28, 2020, Arayik Harutyunyan was involved as an accused person under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and based on the court's decision, he was placed under arrest and placed on an international search.
On October 3 of this year, Arayik Harutyunyan was detained by the State Security Service in Khankendi, and charged with articles 100, 116, 117, 120, 214, 214-1, 214-3, 218, 279 and other articles of the Criminal Code.
Currently, necessary and urgent investigative and operational measures are being continued by the General Prosecutor's Office and the State Security Service.
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