Armenia`s former defense minister offers Armenia s premier to inspect  "unusable missiles"

ArmInfo.Former RA Defense Minister David Tonoyan appealed to RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan 

to personally inspect the so-called "unusable missiles."

In his statement received by ArmInfo, the ex-minister noted that 

after 2 years and 7 months of unjustified and illegal detention, the 

judge of the Anti-Corruption Court of the Republic of Armenia Vahe 

Dolmazyan again rejected the defense's request to change the 

preventive measure against him. "The submission of the petition was 

due to the fact that in the criminal case being considered in the 

Anti-Corruption Court of the Republic of Armenia and presented to the 

public as the "missile case," the next stage of the trial ended on 

April 9, 2024, and the court announced the completion of the judicial 

investigation. Even at the initial stage its stage, the body 

conducting the preliminary investigation, with its statements, tried 

to create in the public environment compromising information about 

the condition of the missiles, their cost and other circumstances of 

the case, which led to the creation of the impression of my guilt as 

an obvious fact, taking into account the assessment of the situation 

indicated in the article. annual report of the Human Rights Defender 

for 2023, the language about the obvious crime committed and the 

guilt of the person should not create a biased perception in terms of 

presenting the person's activities as a confirmed fact; in the 

absence of a judicial act that has entered into legal force, I 

reserve the right to refer to a number of important circumstances 

within the limits of already published information," Tonoyan noted.

He noted that until now, to the evidence examined during the trial 

and having nothing to do with the charges brought, the Russian-made 

missiles were in perfect condition, which was recognized as material 

evidence 3 years ago in a case considered by the judge during the 

last few court hearings. "During the interrogation, the judge ignored 

the requirement to inspect the entire number of missiles mentioned in 

my indictment. The judge also ignored my request to inspect the 

missiles on site. The court also did not ensure the participation of 

an expert in the examination process. Meanwhile, according to the 

results of the examination, qualifications disappeared <poor quality 

>, "unusable" and "expired", assigned to these missiles by well-known 

circles, one conclusion can be drawn: inspection of only part of the 

missiles was enough for the latter to form an internal conviction 

about their real condition, given my confidence that the Prime 

Minister will be. to persecute me, and also realizing that Pashinyan 

has problems with trust in specialists, I suggest that he personally 

conduct another check of the missiles in question in front of me and, 

in the presence of the media, ask me personally questions that 

interest him, both on weapons and on other topics of public interest 

interest. If the head of a country facing ontological problems has 

time to check the quality of the hangers in school closets, let him 

find time to "check" the missiles needed to ensure the combat 

effectiveness of the Air Force.

Day before the Anti-Corruption Court rejected the defense's request 

to change the preventive measure for former Defense Minister David 

Tonoyan, he will remain under arrest. David Tonoyan is a defendant in 

a criminal case related to abuses in the process of supplying 

ammunition. The head of the company supplying weapons to Armenia, 

David Galstyan, and the former deputy chief of the General Staff of 

the Armed Forces Stepan Galstyan are also accused in this case. The 

ex-minister has been in custody since September 2021.