Moscow Court Sentences Former Investigator Levon Aghajanyan to 11 Years in Prison

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow has sentenced former investigator of the Russian Investigative Committee, Levon Aghajanyan, to 11 years in prison for falsifying evidence in a shooting case that took place in a Moscow business center and for subjecting an innocent person to criminal liability. This was reported by TASS.

“Aghajanyan has been sentenced to 11 years in a correctional facility of a general regime,” the judge announced during the verdict.

The court also confiscated 7 million rubles from the defendant. Following the verdict, Aghajanyan has been stripped of his title of Major of Justice. After his release, he will be prohibited from holding any organizational or administrative positions for three years.

The verdict has not yet entered into legal force. The defense has announced intentions to appeal it in a higher court.

According to the Russian Investigative Committee, Aghajanyan was dismissed from his position as an investigator of the Moscow Main Investigative Directorate in February 2019 and subsequently began working as a lawyer. His illegal actions were uncovered by investigators from the central apparatus of the Russian Investigative Committee during the investigation of a criminal case removed from the Moscow city department regarding a shooting incident at the “Oko” tower in downtown Moscow. The incident occurred in 2017.

Aghajanyan was in charge of the preliminary investigation of this case. The Investigative Committee believes that during the investigation he falsified some investigative records and physical evidence with the aim of diminishing the role of the accused in the crime. In addition, he conducted illegal criminal prosecution against three other individuals.