ArmInfo.The former deputy prime minister and ex-secretary of the National Security Council of Armenia, Armen Gevorgyan, was charged with pressuring a member of the Constitutional Court. Sasun Khachatryan, the head of the Special Investigation Service (SIS), said this on the eve of the Public Television Channel of Armenia.
According to him, Armen Gevorgyan is accused of exerting pressure on the member of the Constitutional Court Valery Pogosyan, when the Constitutional Court considered the complaints of the opponents of Serzh Sargsyan after the 2008 presidential elections. "Even the Wikileaks organization reported this, we conducted an investigation and found out that this publication is justified," he said, adding that the accused faces up to six years of imprisonment.
According to Khachatryan, Wikileaks wrote that the CC member Valery Poghosyan complained to the American diplomats that Armen Gevorgyan, who at that time held the post of the head of the presidential administration, exerted pressure on him so that he did not participate in the CC review meeting complaints of rivals Serzh Sargsyan. The head of the SIS added that as a result, Poghosyan did not participate in that meeting under the pressure of Gevorgyan.
After the presidential elections on February 19, 2008, a series of protests took place in Armenia, the participants of which expressed disagreement with their official results, according to which the winner was recognized as Serzh Sargsyan. Street actions were organized by supporters of the first president of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who then also claimed a top position. During the clashes between the protesters and law enforcement agencies, eight demonstrators and two police officers were killed, 33 police officers were hospitalized. Around 230 people turned to the doctors for help.