Claim of HCA Vanadzor v. RA Prosecutor General’s Office dismissed
16:01, April 25, 2016 | News, Own news | Freedom of Information and Speech | General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia
On April 25, 2016, the RA Administrative Court, presided by judge A. Tovmasyan, announced the judgment on HCA Vanadzor v. RA Prosecutor General’s Office under the claim on compelling the latter to provide the requested information and ruled to dismiss the claim.
The Court found that the Organization requested information from an agency that did not directly act as an agency in charge of the information requested by the application, and such an agency might be the RA Special Investigation Service. At the same time, the Court found that the fact that the RA Prosecutor General or the prosecutors authorized by him supervised the preliminary investigation carried out by the RA Special Investigation Service did not attest to the fact that the RA Prosecutor General’s Office kept statistics of the criminal cases investigated under Article 119, Article 309(2) and (3) and Article 341 of the RA Criminal Code in 2013 and 2014. The Court also found that by the legislative amendments effective since June 28, 2014, reserving the duty to keep statistics to the RA Special Investigation Service also attested to the fact that the RA Prosecutor General’s Office was not an agency in charge of the information, and that the claim lacked merits and was subject to dismissal.
Note that by its claim submitted to the Court, HCA Vanadzor required that the Court compelled the RA Prosecutor General’s Office to provide the Organization with the information requested by the inquiry of July 16, 2015, i.e. quantitative information on the procedural decisions made during the investigations of crimes by the RA Special Investigation Service under Article 119, Article 309(2) and (3) and Article 341 of the RA Criminal Code in 2013 and 2014.