The Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied the second motion to arrest Armenia’s former Ambassador to the Vatican Mikayel Minasyan, one of his lawyers, Mihran Poghosyan, said on Facebook.

Prosecutors had appealed the ruling of a lower court rejecting their request for Minasyan’s arrest to the Criminal Court of Appeals.

"We had repeatedly stated that the second motion to arrest Mikayel Minasyan is illegal, which was approved today by the Criminal Court of Appeals,” he wrote.

“Obviously, the political authorities of the country cannot tolerate this situation and in the near future they will file to the court the third motion to arrest Mikayel Minasyan, which will be preceded by a press release on ‘another sensational and scandalous revelation’ and ‘comprehensive and objective’ "reports by the Public TV Company and RFE/RL's Armenian service," the lawyer added.