ArmInfo.The Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan is considering the petition of the investigator of the Special Investigation Service (SIS) of Armenia on the application of a preventive measure in the form of arrest against the former head of the office of Robert Kocharyan, former Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan. This was reported to ArmInfo by the SIS press secretary Marina Ohanzhanyan.
At the moment, Ohanzhanyan did not clarify in which case and on what charge Gevorgyan will be detained. "We will inform about the details later", said the representative of the SIS. Meanwhile, the court hearing was postponed today, and the application for the arrest of Armen Gevorgyan will be considered on December 13 at 10:30am. Earlier it was reported that the former deputy Prime Minister and former head of the National Security Service of Armenia Armen Gevorgyan was charged in the case of March 1, 2008 under part 2 of Article 332 (Obstruction of justice and investigation) of the Armenian Criminal Code. Under this article, Gevorgyan may be sentenced to 6 years in prison, as a preventive measure was chosen on his own recognizance. The reason for initiating a criminal case was the information that the Constitutional Court member Valery Poghosyan was pressured to defend a position acceptable to the authorities when considering the opposition's claim to appeal the outcome of the presidential election. It turned out that an attempt to exert pressure carried out Gevorgyan together with another person.
To recall, after the presidential elections of February 19, 2008, a series of protests took place in Armenia, the participants of which expressed disagreement with their official results, which resulted in Serzh Sargsyan being declared the winner. Supporters of the first President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who then also claimed the highest post, organized the street actions. During the clashes of protesters with law enforcement agencies, eight protesters and two policemen were killed, and 33 police officers were hospitalized. Only about 230 people then turned for help to the doctors.