Tatevik Shagunyan. A new criminal case has been instituted against the second Armenian President Robert Kocharian, he is accused of laundering money. Head of the National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan told a news conference.

According to him, the case was initiated the other day. In this regard, Vanetsyan showed the journalists a document in which Kocharyan's property and schemes of illegal acquisition of this property are listed on several sheets. "For example, here there is a scheme of how the Italian company" Renko "became the property of the Kocharyan family," Vanetsyan said, saying that it is about hundreds of millions of dollars.

He also said that Sashik Sargsyan's third president's looted brother is in the banks of Armenia and foreign countries. "Everyone says that they have 50% of Sashik Sargsyan's share in various enterprises of Armenia, whose shares he forcibly took, all of which are in banks," Vanetzian assured.

"For 20 years, this country was plundered, people were in poverty, foreign debt has grown many times." The award is estimated at billions of dollars, but we will return everything to the people, and then we will leave our posts with calm soul, "Vanetzian assured.

It should be noted that Kocharyan is accused of overthrowing the constitutional order in the framework of the case on March 1, 2008.