Narek Sargsyan, the nephew of former President Serzh Sargsyan, has been released on bail of AMD 25 million ($50,000), Factor.am reports.

Narek Sargsyan is charged with illegal acquisition and possession of weapons, arms, explosives, as well as illicit drug trafficking.

In December 2019, the Czech Republic satisfied a request submitted by the Prosecutor General of Armenia to extradite Sargsyan to Armenia. He was discovered and arrested in Prague in 2018. He held a false passport which identified him as a citizen of Guatemala named Franklin Gonzales.