RA Prosecutor General`s Office demands confiscation of AMD 670mln  paid to victims of March 1, 2008 events from ex-president 

ArmInfo. The Prosecutor General's Office demands that the second President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan and other persons confiscate 670 million drams  provided to the families and victims of the events of March 1.

Factor.am learned about this from the Datalex judicial information  system. The claim was received on August 11 and signed by Ashkhen  Garslyan, a judge of the Anti-Corruption Court.

Thus, the Prosecutor General's Office demands that the second  President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, former Deputy  Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan, former Chief of the General Staff of  the Armed Forces of the Ministry of Defense Seyran Ohanyan and former  Deputy Minister of Defense Yuri Khachaturov, by filing a  retrospective claim, jointly confiscate 670 million drams in damages  compensated by the Republic of Armenia.

On March 1, 2008, after the regular presidential elections held on  February 19, which were won by Serzh Sargsyan, riots broke out in  Yerevan, resulting in clashes with law enforcement officials. The  Armenian opposition, led by the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan,  who also ran in the elections, held rallies in the center of Yerevan  from February 20, expressing dissatisfaction with the voting results.

The protests resulted in riots and clashes between protesters and law  enforcement officials on March 1-2, resulting in 10 deaths, including  police officers, and over 200 injuries of varying severity.

On August 17, 2018, Nikol Pashinyan announced that the case of the  events of March 1-2, 2008 in Yerevan had been fully resolved. "I will  repeat once again and say this with full responsibility: there is no  option for any of the criminals, their leaders, to escape  responsibility. There is no such option," he emphasized.  Let us  note, however, that to this day none of the responsible persons have  been punished accordingly for that crime.