Armenia

Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia

GENERAL PART

Section Three: PARTIES AND OTHER PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER 8. DEFENDANT PARTY

Article 66. The Acquitted

3. The acquitted is also entitled to demand full compensation of the real lost opportunities as a result of arrest, impleading as the accused, and conviction.

4. The acquitted as compensation is entitled to receive:
1) the salary, the pension, allowances, other incomes he was deprived of;
2) the inflicted damage as a result of seizure of property, confiscation by inquest bodies, arrest of property.
3) The paid court fees;
4) The fees paid to the lawyer;
5) The fines paid when the verdict was executed;

5. The amount spent to keep the person in custody, court expenses, and the salary of the detained person for mandatory labor, can not be deducted from the amount which is subject to payment as compensation for the damages caused by the mistakes of the body in charge criminal proceedings.

6. In the case when the criminal proceedings were suspended and criminal prosecution was terminated or acquittal was adopted for lack of formal elements of crime, the compensation of damages envisioned in this Code is done only in the form of civil proceedings, after the resolution of a civil claim.

7. In the case when acquittal or the decisions to terminate the criminal proceedings and criminal prosecution based on which damage was compensated, were canceled, and a guilty verdict was made against the same person in the same case, the amount paid as compensation of damage can be confiscated by the court by reversal of the decision.

Keywords

Compensation - national proceedings



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