AGHVAN HOVSEPIAN: CASE AGAINST KARABAKH COMMITTEE IS IN HANDS OF LEVON TER-PETROSIAN

Noyan Tapan
Nov 9, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The volumes of the criminal case
against the Karabakh committee was taken from the archives and handed
to Levon Ter-Petrosian, the first President of the Republic of Armenia,
on the order of the Prosecutor General by the Head of the Investigation
Section of those times yet in November 6, 1996. This statement was
made by Aghvan Hovsepian, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of
Armenia, during the November 9 meeting with journalists, in response
to the question concerning the results of the official investigation
appointed on the occasion of the disappeared criminal case. According
to him, the RA Prosecutor General’s Office has sent a writing to the RA
first President, asking to return the criminal case to the Prosecutor’s
Office. "Criminal cases are prohibited to be handed to another body
by the investigation one by law, even the President of the republic
has no right to demand the criminal cases and keep them in his hands,"
the RA Prosecutor said and added: "In my opinion, Levon Ter-Petrosian
will be so sensilbe as to return the case to the prosecutor’s office."

Vahagn Hayotsian, the executive secretary of the Armenian National
Movement party, refuted the statement of the RA Prosecutor General
in his interview with a Noyan Tapan correspondent, saying that "it
does not correspond to reality."