Former top security official Vachagan Ghazaryan to be jailed again

The court of cassation has approved the complaint of the prosecutor general’s deputy on upholding the first instance court’s ruling on remanding into custody Vachagan Ghazaryan and overruling the previous bail decision.

Ghazaryan, a former top security official, will be placed under arrest again.

Former security official Vachagan Ghazaryan, the head of ex-President Serzh Sargsyan’s security detail, was released from pre-trial detention on a 1,000,000,000 dram (roughly 2,1 million dollars) bail earlier in July.

Ghazaryan was placed under pre-trial detention for two-months. But the former security official appealed the verdict to a higher court, which in turn granted bail.

The court had set the bail for his release earlier on July 20.