Decision to prosecute MP political one - MP

ArmInfo. The decision to initiate criminal prosecution against National Assembly deputy Hovik Agazaryan is a political decision. Agazaryan himself told journalists  about this on March 19.

The Prosecutor General's Office sent a petition to the Speaker of the  National Assembly Alen Simonyan to initiate criminal prosecution  against MP Hovik Agazaryan, who was previously a member of the ruling  Civil Contract faction. He is accused of disclosing state secrets.  The MP was expelled from the ruling Civil Contract party last fall  after he refused to resign his parliamentary mandate at the request  of the Prime Minister of Armenia.

Agazaryan noted that he has no doubt that the ruling faction will  have a positive outcome from the consideration of this petition in  the country's parliament. Moreover, only a few people in it are  lawyers by education, the rest will only fulfill the requirements of  the supervisory body. Agazaryan noted that he had never disclosed  state secrets. If the authorities believe that something like this  really took place, then in this case we should be talking about  treason against the political team.

"If the Pavlik Morozovs justify this circumstance by demonstrating  one or two cases, then that would be a different matter, but none of  that exists," Agazaryan noted, adding at the same time that in his  case we are not talking about political persecution.