Aghvan Garniki Hovsepyan (Armenian: Աղվան Գառնիկի Հովսեփյան; born January 7, 1953) is an Armenian jurist and politician who served two terms as Prosecutor General of Armenia, first from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2004 to 2013. From 2014 to 2018, he served as head of the Investigative Committee of Armenia. He also served secretary of the Prosecutor General from 1999 to 2004.[1][2]
Hovsepyan belonged to the editorial board of the journal Preliminary Investigation.[3]
On September 7, 2021, Hovsepyan was arrested on several corruption charges, including the laundering of 1.3 billion Armenian dram and stealing property worth 800 million dram.[4]
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- ^ "Prosecutor General". Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ "Biography of Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan". National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ "Официальный сайт научно-практического журнала "Предварительное расследование"". Archived from the original on 2019-05-30. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ "Hovsepyan Gets Pre-Trial Detention; Denies Corruption Charges". Hetq.am. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
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