ArmInfo. The interrogation of relatives of President of the Constitutional Court, Hrayr Tovmasyan, has no political context. This was announced on October 28 by acting Director of the National Security Service Eduard Martirosyan.
He noted that the testimony of the father and two daughters of Tovmasyan was necessary to ensure the full volume of the materials prepared. According to him, law enforcement officers were required to obtain clarification regarding property issues. Martirosyan informed that the preliminary investigation was ongoing, and it was not possible to call Hrayr Tovmasyan for clarification, since he did not answer the phone and then left for Moscow. Martirosyan noted that the police wanted to notify Tovmasyan first of all that it was not a question of interrogation. "There is no political implication in this," he said.
To recall, the relatives of Tovmasyan gave explanations on the fact of obvious abuses and outstanding work in 2012-2014 during construction work on the restoration of the building on Zaqyan Street in the amount of 855 million drams, as well as repair work in the Abovyan Penitentiary Institution and near one of the capital's schools in the amount of 15 million drams.
Earlier, the Special Investigation Service opened a criminal case on the seizure of state power by a group of persons on the basis of a statement by the independent MP of the National Assembly of Armenia Arman Babajanyan. The case was brought under Article 300 of the RA Criminal Code (seizure of power through violence or the threat of violence, as well as the appropriation of the powers of the President, Speakr of the National Assembly, Government or the Constitutional Court by methods not provided for by the Constitution). The statement of the MP concerns the legality of the chairmanship of the head of the Constitutional Court of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan in this position. The MP in his message to the Prosecutor General's Office noted that Tovmasyan committed violations of the law upon assuming this position in 2018. That is, Tovmasyan's MP duties were terminated without a corresponding statement, on the basis of a nonexistent justification by the then NA President.