COLLABORATORS OF PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE RECEIVE VOLUMES OF CASE AGAINST KARABAKH COMMITTEE FROM LEVON TER-PETROSIAN

Noyan Tapan
Nov 12 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. Levon Ter-Petrosian, the first
President of the Republic of Armenia, has responded to the writing
sent by Ashot Yesayan, the Head of the personnel of the RA Prosecutor
General’s Office, on November 9 on returning the volumes of the case
against Karabakh Committee, expressing readiness to return the volumes
of the case to the archives of the prosecutor’s office. As of 17:00
on November 10, five collaborators of the prosecutor’s office were
conducting the reception of the 61 volumes of the case, a corresponding
legal deed is to be formed at the end of the process. This information
was provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by Sona Truzian, the
Spokesperson of the RA Prosecutor General. "The prosecutor’s office had
not received any response or writing from Levon Ter-Petrosian during
the official investigation, the statement of Levon Ter-Petrosian
on the fact that the volumes were in his hands only followed the
statement of the RA Prosecutor General on the results of the official
investigation," the Spokesperson of the RA Prosecutor General said.

It should be mentioned that an official investigation was appointed
by Aghvan Hovsepian, the RA Prosecutor General, in connection with the
disappearance of the volumes of the above-mentioned case, which found
out that the outlay of the volumes was recorded in the register of the
archives of the prosecutor’s office on November 6, 1996, however,
there was no note on the return of the volumes of the case. It
was discovered during the official investigation that the volumes
were handed to the representative of Levon Ter-Petrosian through
Suren Gyozalian, the Head of the Investigation Department of those
times, on the order of Artavazd Gevorgian, the RA former Prosecutor
General. A number of officials of the above-mentioned times, including
the Prosecutor General and the Head of the Investigation Department,
have given explanations about this during the official investigation.