Armenian Court Orders Son of Ex-President Held in Sweeping Graft Probe

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What the source reports

A Yerevan court ordered the pretrial detention of Sedrak Kocharyan as prosecutors expand a multi-million-dollar corruption investigation into his father, former President Robert Kocharyan, and other high-ranking ex-officials.

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Source & verification

Primary source: OCCRP Stories About Corruption · August 26, 2026

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