Head of SIS: Accusations against Kocharyan are extremely obvious,  precise and justified

ArmInfo."I will not go down to the level of the lawyers of Robert Kocharyan and those who accuse the SIS of legal illiteracy," head of the Special Investigative Service  of Armenia Sasun Khachatryan told journalists on August 2.

According to him, the decision to present the charge is so clear and  justified that it is not clear to him, and in some cases, ridiculous,  the manipulations of the defense side.

Robert Kocharyan, as Khachatryan said, is accused of forcibly  overthrowing the constitutional order. The basis for presenting this  accusation, he said, is the involvement of the army in political  processes, which is prohibited by both the former and the current  edition of the constitution. Involvement of the armed forces is  permissible only in case of declaration of martial law, which was not  done, he explained. "It's so obvious that speculations on this topic  are not clear to me," Khachatryan pointed out.

As for the accusations that Kocharyan was summoned for interrogation  as a witness, but on the spot "transformed" into the accused, Sasun  Khachatryan noted that the criminal procedure is a dynamic process,  and the status of a person is assessed on the basis of a comparison  of the data at a specific moment. In this case, he said, if on the  basis of the data already received, Kocharyan would have been  questioned as a witness, the investigative body would violate his  rights.

Touching upon the signatures collected by 41 deputies of the National  Assembly for an application for Kocharyan's release on bail or a  written undertaking not to leave the place, Khachatryan noted that  the court and the prosecutor decide to be Kocharyan under arrest or  to satisfy the petition of lawyers. However, in his opinion, Robert  Kocharyan should be detained in order to ensure the completeness of  the investigation and the exclusion of its unlawful influence on the  participants in the criminal process.

Kocharyan's lawyers have repeatedly stated that the case is  completely fabricated, and extremely illiterate.