ON MAY 10 IT WILL BECOME CLEAR IF PETITION WILL BE FILED FOR CHOOSING ARREST AS MEASURE OF RESTRAINT FOR ALEXANDER ARZUMANIAN
Noyan Tapan
May 10 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. At 23:30 pm on May 10, the 72-hour
term, during which it is allowed by law to hold under arrest the
former RA foreign minister Alexander Arzumanian, expires. To recap,
A. Arzumanian is charged with money laundering. Hovik Arsenian, defence
lawyer of A. Arzumanian, told NT correspondent that now A. Arzumanian
has status of a suspect. According to him, on May 10 it will become
clear if the RA National Security Service Investigation Unit, which
is investigating the case, will file a petition for choosing arrest
as a measure of restraint.
The lawyer said that there is no penal action in the activities of A.
Arzumaian so corpus delicti is absent.