The prosecutor's office demanded that Karapetyan be returned to the detention center.

The Armenian Prosecutor General's Office has demanded that the pretrial detention of Samvel Karapetyan, who has been placed under house arrest, be tightened. The defense is insisting on the businessman's release.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," in November 2025, an Armenian court extended Samvel Karapetyan's pretrial detention. However, on December 30, the court transferred the businessman to house arrest. On the same day, Karapetyan was released from the Yerevan-Kentron Penitentiary.

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The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has appealed the decision to place Samvel Karapetyan under house arrest, the businessman's lawyer, Aram Vardevanyan, reported.

"An appeal has been filed against the decision to place Samvel Karapetyan under house arrest, demanding his mandatory arrest," News.am quoted him as saying today.

The lawyer noted that the defense has also filed a complaint against the decision to place Karapetyan under house arrest, seeking to have the measure of restraint lifted.

"There is no justification, no basis, but an exclusively illegal, humiliating, and law-denying position, according to which Samvel Karapetyan must be arrested. This specific absurdity of political persecution has been going on for about seven months now," his statement is quoted as saying. words.

As a reminder, before his arrest, Samvel Karapetyan expressed support for the Armenian Apostolic Church after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan harshly criticized the church at a government meeting on May 29 and responded to Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan's objections with insults on Facebook*. Armenian politicians and church representatives demanded that Pashinyan apologize for insulting the church, according to a report prepared by the "Caucasian Knot" entitled "The Main Thing About Political Arrests in Armenia in June 2025".

In July 2025, 65 members of the Armenian parliament supported a bill that would allow the nationalization of Karapetyan's company, Electric Networks of Armenia. On July 8, security forces searched the company's offices and the home of board chairman Narek Karapetyan.

On July 2, 2025, searches were conducted at the Yerevan office of Tashir Group. The searches were prompted by a criminal case of tax evasion and money laundering. On July 11, 2025, Vaghinak Ghazaryan, director of Karapetyan's Tashir Pizza, was arrested for tax evasion.