ArmInfo.An investigator of the Special Investigation Service (SIS) of the Republic of Armenia rejected the request of the defense team of January 9 to stop criminal prosecution against the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharian.
According to lawyers for Robert Kocharyan, the rejection of the petition was motivated by the fact that the accusation was based on sufficient evidence obtained in accordance with the law, and there are no circumstances precluding criminal prosecution.Earlier, the Special Investigation Service (SIS) sent a petition to the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan to extend the term of arrest of the second president Robert Kocharian for two months. At the same time, Kocharyan's defense submitted a petition to the Special Investigation Service to stop the prosecution.
Lawyers believe that Kocharyan cannot be accused under the article "overthrow of the constitutional system" in the case of the events of 2008, because at that time there was no crime in the Armenian Criminal Code in this article or in the crime it provided.