Movses Hakobyan

Movses Hranti Hakobyan (; born 4 February 1965) is a former senior Armenian military official and the former commander of NKR Defense Army and former Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces. From 19 November 2018 until his resignation on 18 November 2020, Hakobyan served as the Chief Military Inspector of the Armed Forces. Hakobyan was dismissed from his post as chief military inspector on 19 November 2019 but later reappointed to the same post.

On 18 November 2020, during the political crisis created by the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement, he submitted his resignation from the post of Head of the Military Control Service of the Armenian Ministry of Defense. Hakobyan gave a press conference following his resignation where he alleged a number of failures by Nikol Pashinyan's government in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. Hakobyan's press conference became the subject of investigation by the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia. On 3 May 2021, Hakobyan was charged with revealing state secrets and summoned by Armenia's National Security Service for questioning.

Personal life Hakobyan is married and has two children. His nephew, Armen Grigoryan, served as the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia from 2018-2026.

Awards Hero of Artsakh (2 September 2002) Order of the Combat Cross, 1st degree Order of the Combat Cross, 2nd degree Order of the Combat Cross, 2nd degree Medal "For Services to the Fatherland", 1st degree Order of Vardan Mamikonian Order of the Red Star Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Medal "Soldiers-Internationalists" Medal "From the Grateful People of Afghanistan"