"Fact" daily writes:
After the change of power in 2018, one of the first steps of Nikol Pashinyan was to initiate a criminal case against the second president of the Republic of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, who was in fact 2.5 years in the status of an accused, moreover, he was in prison for about 530 days. And here, first of all, the Constitutional Court recognized as unconstitutional the article provided by the Criminal Code, with which a case was initiated and accused against Robert Kocharyan, in 2008 the Deputy Minister of Defense Yuri Khachaturov and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Seyran Ohanyan. Then the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan was forced to make a decision, by which the criminal case was terminated and then acquitted Robert Kocharyan and others. From the beginning, lawyers stated that this criminal case is a bubble, which was confirmed by both the Supreme Court and the court of general jurisdiction. Nevertheless, Nikol Pashinyan, it seems, is not giving up and has decided to stop the legal system on the same rake for the second time. And here, already in the Anti-corruption Court, a trial with the same name has been restarted, the explanation, article, accusation of which was not understood not only by the public, but also by the lawyers. The very first session showed that we are again dealing with, as Robert Kocharyan mentioned yesterday, "legal hooliganism". "What is happening is absurd and has nothing to do with jurisprudence at all," he said. The point is that there is a criminal case, but in fact there is no accusation. In a conversation with us yesterday, several lawyers mentioned that in this case, the authorities have two options: either to dismiss the case urgently, which means to be disgraced again, or to continue to violate the laws of the Republic of Armenia and go "to the end" without committing further illegalities, and to embarrass yourself during each regular session, as long as it is possible to "drag out" this case.
