PROSECUTOR-GENERAL DENIES MEDIA SPECULATIONS ABOUT FIRE AT JUSTICE MINISTRY
AZG Armenian Daily
13/02/2008
Local
Today Prosecutor-General of the Republic of Armenia Agvan Hovsepian
brushed off media speculations claiming that the fire that destroyed
the archives of the Justice Ministry’s on February 9 was organized
in order to destroy the files on the October 27 terrorist attack on
the Parliament.
Speaking to the reporters the prosecutor-general said that those rumors
and some other claims are an election ploy designed to disorient the
public and discredit the authorities.
The prosecutor-general stated that no criminal files were kept in
the Justice Ministry as they are to be kept either in the archives of
the structures engage in investigations or in the archives of courts.
Mr. Hovsepian added that the Justice Ministry’s building was built in
1930 and saw several fires. At present the investigation is underway
into what was the cause of the fire.
"I think we have enough technology to discover what was the real
cause of the fire," concluded the Prosecutor General.