Second RA president`s office explains reason for Robert Kocharyan`s  hospitalization

ArmInfo.  The second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, recently underwent surgery, and his doctor decided to conduct an additional examination. This is how Bagrat  Mikoyan, head of the office of the second president of Armenia,  commented on the news of Kocharyan's hospitalization from the  building of the Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia.

"The second president recently underwent medical intervention, which,  naturally, we did not report.  Currently, the doctor, based on this  circumstance, deemed it necessary to conduct an additional  examination," Mikoyan said in a statement published by the press  service of the Armenia bloc.

As a reminder, Kocharyan was previously hospitalized from the  building of the Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia, where he was  taken early in the morning following a search of his home. It was  reported that the second president's health had worsened,  specifically, his blood pressure had increased.

Beginning early in the morning of August 25, a search was also  conducted at the home of Levon Kocharyan, a member of the National  Assembly of Armenia from the opposition "Armenia" faction and the son  of second president Robert Kocharyan. The search lasted seven hours.  It was also reported that searches were being conducted at dozens of  addresses of companies belonging to the Kocharyan family. Later, the  Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia confirmed the detention of  Robert Kocharyan and his son, Sedrak Kocharyan. Aram Orbelyan, the  lawyer for the second president of Armenia, reported that Kocharyan  was being detained on charges similar to those brought against him  following the June parliamentary elections in Armenia. Orbelyan  specified that the charges relate to Kocharyan's ratification of  certain government decisions during his presidency. It is noteworthy  that the day before, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ordered  law enforcement agencies to deprive Kocharyan and the third president  of the Republic, Serzh Sargsyan, of their property.