LOST CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST KARABAKH COMMITTEE FOUND

arminfo
2007-11-09 16:12:00

ArmInfo. The criminal case against Karabakh Committee was handed over
to the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Prosecutor
General of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan told journalists, Friday.

As it was reported earlier, it has been found out recently that the
multi-volume criminal case is lost. The immediate investigation exposed
the present location of the criminal case. Aghvan Hovsepyan said
Iravunk newspaper had requested Prosecutor General’s Office to study
the materials of the case against Karabakh Committee. ‘Founding out
that the case was lost I instructed to start an official investigation,
which showed that yet on November 6 1996 then head of the investigation
department handed over the case to Levon Ter-Petrosyan on demand of
the prosecutor general. Today we sent a written request to Levon
Ter-Petrosyan for the criminal case,’ Aghvan Hovsepyan said. He
also added that the law bans handing over criminal cases to a third
party. It applies even to the president. ‘I think L. Ter-Petrosyan
will be reasonable enough to hand the criminal case back to the
prosecutor’s office,’ Prosecutor General said.