Grounds for keeping Robert Kocharyan under arrest exist: Attorney General

Armenia’s Attorney General said they saw grounds for Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan to stay under arrest after the end of preliminary investigation.

“Agreed with it, the investigative body submitted a motion for prolonging arrest for another two months. Recently it was appealed at the Court of Appeal and it was clear that we still believe that grounds for his arrest exist,” Davtyan said.

As to the claims of Kocharyan’s lawyers that March 1 case is water, Davtyan said, “The defense side claims that in 2009 the prosecutors made a decision not to carry out criminal persecution under that time acting Article 300 against 7 people reasoning it with the circumstance that as if the article on overthrowing constitutional order as a result of legislative amendments in 2009 was viewed as law toughening the responsibility. In case of proper occasion the decision will be presented to the public and I will ask my colleagues to point the place where such thing is fixed.”

The attorney general said with their perception the new law is not toughening the responsibility.