CSTO Secretariat does not yet have information on accusations of  Armenian authorities against Yuri Khachaturov

ArmInfo. The CSTO Secretariat does not yet have information on accusations of the Armenian authorities against Yuri Khachaturov. The press secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov  told Tass.

"As it was previously reported, in July the CSTO Secretary General  Yuri Khachaturov left for Yerevan to testify as a witness on the  events of May 1-2, 2008. The CSTO secretariat does not have any other  information," the source said. Meanwhile, Armenia's Special  Investigative Service (CAS) charged the CSTO Secretary General,  Colonel-General Yuri Khachaturov, in overthrowing the constitutional  order in 2008 and appealed to the court to choose arrest as a  preventive measure. The investigators do not specify the role of  Khachaturov in the events of 2008, but it is known that on March 1,  2008 Khachaturov commanded the Yerevan garrison of the Armenian Armed  Forces. Since 2017, he is the Secretary General of the CSTO. As his  lawyer Mihran Poghosyan stated in a conversation with journalists,  the Special Investigation Service of Armenia did not explain Yuri  Khachaturov the nature and grounds of the charges brought to him. "He  does not understand what he is accused of," Poghosyan said,  Khachaturov himself stated that he does not agree with the charge  brought against him. 

In the same court - in the court of first instance of the Shengavit  district of Yerevan, at the moment, the application submitted by the  Special Investigation Service of Armenia for the election of a  preventive measure in the form of custody with regard to the second  President Robert Kocharian is being considered.