Head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan commented on the proposal of 2nd President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan to disclose the confidentiality of the preliminary investigation over the 2008 March 1 criminal case.
The SIS chief told reporters after today’s Cabinet session that there is no procedure of revealing the confidentiality of the preliminary investigation.
“Can you imagine what will happen if the confidentiality of the preliminary investigation is disclosed in the whole? There are people who cooperate with the preliminary investigation, provide operative data. Can you imagine what will happen if all this is declassified?”, he said.
He stated that the confidentiality refers only to the preliminary investigation stage. “During the trial the case is investigated in the court in an open-door format if it doesn’t contain state secret. And the confidentiality of the preliminary investigation derives from the interests of both the case and persons, therefore I don’t think that such demand is realistic”, the SIS chief said.