Samvel Karapetyan Files Lawsuit Against Two MPs from Civil Contract Party

Businessman Samvel Karapetyan, who is currently in custody, has filed lawsuits against MPs Hayk Konjoryan and Arsen Torosyan of the National Assembly's Civil Contract faction at the Yerevan City First Instance General Jurisdiction Civil Court. The businessman is demanding that each of the MPs retract defamatory and insulting statements and pay 9 million AMD in damages, according to Hetq.

Specifically, Arsen Torosyan said from the National Assembly podium in 2025, “I want to comment on two statements made by their authors, whose buttocks seem to have been cut off in the Lubyanka, in the FSB headquarters. The first is named Arshak... Now let me get to the other hero, the same Samvel Karapetyan.” These remarks have been perceived as insulting by S. Karapetyan, who is also demanding a public apology from A. Torosyan in addition to compensation.

Regarding the defamation aspect, the businessman is requiring that the MP publicly retract the statements made during his remarks at the National Assembly on the same day. It is claimed that Samvel Karapetyan was instructed by the FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) to make the statements he voiced during a news.am interview with the intent to incite violence against the legitimate authorities of Armenia and to harm the leadership of Armenia.

As for the lawsuit filed against MP Hayk Konjoryan, the businessman found the following statements made by the MP to be offensive: “You are merely the other side of the blasphemous marriage of certain high-ranking clerics and oligarchs, you are the oligarchic wing,” “you are sycophants and servile bread-eaters... get out of your place,” and “today, the laurel of Katriç Nersisyan resembles a shell under which all sorts of criminals have gathered: oligarchs, former robbers, riffraffs, blasphemers, and electoral blasphemers, all united under this shell as a shell and they want to fire upon the state with that shell. And yesterday, the owner of HEC, Samvel Karapetyan, smoothly appeared under that shell as well.”

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