An Armenian court has approved a request filed by the country’s Prosecutor General to try, in absentia, Armenia’s former Ambassador to the Holy See Mikayel Minasyan on money laundering and embezzlement charges.

Mikayel Minasyan, the son-in-law of Armenian ex-president Serzh Sargsyan, has been a “wanted person since March 2020 and his whereabouts are unknown.

Interpol suspended its search for Minasyan in 2022.

Minasyan had been a vocal critic of the Armenian government, frequently posting videos and statements on social media from an undisclosed location.