Armenia’s acting PM Nikol Pashinyan’s newly appointed adviser general-mayor Arshak Karapetyan has given testimonies against Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan, attorney Hayk Alumyan told the reporters today.

“This person has given testimonies against Mr Kocharyan. Mr Kocharyan claims that these testimonies are absolute lies. An attempt was made to conduct face-to-face interrogation but it failed due to some reasons I would not like to voice,” Alumyan said.

“Arshak Karapetyan was one of deputies of Yuri Khachaturov. I cannot say why he has been appointed adviser. I can only suppose that the appointment was made as a sign of encouragement in the sidelines of the criminal case. Of course, I would not like to think that it is such a case, but it would be difficult to think in another way,” Alumyan said.