Kocharyan`s office made a statement related to scandalous audio  message

ArmInfo. Armenian second president Robert Kocharyan's office has made a statement in connection with the scandalous audio message of the conversation  between the director of the National Security Service and the head of  the SIS.  

The statement in particularly reads: "As it is known today,  on September 11, recording of a phone conversation between Director  of Armenia's National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan and Head of  Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan was spread on the  internet, in which they discussed the criminal case of March 1,  particularly the arrest of Robert Kocharyan and CSTO Secretary  General Yuri Khachaturov. Based on the content of the conversations,  it is necessary to state several important circumstances, about which  we have repeatedly stated:

1. Political persecution is carried out against Robert Kocharyan,  which is directed personally by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The  conversation between the director of NSS and the head of the SIS  leaves no doubt about this.

2. Judging from the audio recordings, initially the goal was not to  disclose the "March 1" case and find the guilty ones, but only to  arrest (or as the interlocutors said "to close") President Kocharyan,  which is a classic example of a political vendetta.

3. The judge of the first instance who made a judgment on arrest was  under severe pressure from the authorities and took an illegal  decision dictated to him from above.

4. The measure of restraint in respect of Robert Kocharyan and Yuri  Khachaturov was chosen with the direct consent by Nikol Pashinyan. 

All of this is a crime with the participation of high-ranking  officials. Statements by the Prime Minister as well as the Heads of  SIS and NSS that followed the publication of the record are nothing  more than failed attempts to justify themselves.

It is important to emphasize that these telephone conversations not  only reveal an episode related to a particular case, but also the  whole essence of the current regime, the real face of the acting  authorities.  People who scream from morning till night about love  and tolerance, non-interference in justice, take quite the opposite  actions, deceiving and misleading the public. People who talk about  democracy in the most brutal way violate democratic freedoms and  human rights.

I consider it necessary to emphasize the following: it is clear from  the statement of the Prime Minister, the Director of the National  Security Service and the Head of the SIS that, seeing that through a  falsified case it is impossible to arrest Kocharyan and remove him  from the political field, and also making sure that rumors of  Kocharyan's illegal enrichment and  mythical capital does not  correspond to reality, the authorities resorted to a new method,  saying that Kocharyan's family was laundering money.

Let the society decide what these statements made by the participants  of known telephone conversations worth. But it is obvious that the  political persecution of President Kocharyan continues and enters a  new phase. We call upon all our compatriots and friends to soberly  assess the situation, the style of the authorities' work, to break  the propaganda veil and not allow Armenia from a democratic state to  become a country run by amateurs on the basis of the principles of  Bolshevism and political repression. "