Judge: In the issue of electing a preventive measure against Robert  Kocharyan, I was not pressured

ArmInfo. "In the matter of electing a preventive measure against the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, in the framework of the March 1, 2008  case, I was not pressured." The judge Vache Margaryan, whose name was  mentioned in the famous wiretapping of the heads of the National  Security Service and the Soviet Union, said this in an interview with  journalists.

Margaryan today participated in a closed meeting of the commission  for the investigation of the wiretapping of a telephone conversation  between the heads of the National Security Service and the Soviet  Union. When asked by the journalists whether the judge or his family  members were threatened, after choosing a measure of restraint  against Kocharyan, Margaryan gave a negative answer.  Margarian  stated that he would not answer other questions, as these are the  requirements of the investigative commission.

TO note earlier the judge issued a statement that he was not familiar  with the head of the National Security Service Arthur Vanetsyan, did  not call him, and there was no telephone conversation between them.  Today he confirmed this statement in an interview with journalists.

Meanwhile, in a well-known note, the head of the National Security  Service Arthur Vanetsyan admits the head of the SIS, Sasun  Khachatryan, that he was called by Kocharyan's case judge Vache  Margaryan and consulted about the election of the second president's  preventive measure. he said that he had to look at all the grounds  before the verdict was passed, I said, look, but Kocharyan should be  arrested anyway. " To note Vache Margaryan used arrest as a measure  of restraint against the second president.