Investigative Committee refused to recognize Robert Kocharyan as a  victim in the case of wiretapping heads of SIS and the NSS

ArmInfo. The Investigation Committee of Armenia refused to recognize Robert Kocharyan as a victim in the criminal case about the wiretapping of a telephone  conversation between the heads of the National Security Service and  the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Armenia.

According to the statement of the representative of the 2nd President  Robert Kocharyan - Hovhannes Khudoyan, the Investigative Committee of  Armenia rejected his application for granting the procedural status  of the victim to Kocharyan. "The petition was filed with the  Investigative Committee, taking into account the fact that the  content of the public record contains data confirming the fact of  taking actions aimed at unlawfully restricting the freedom of Robert  Kocharyan," the lawyer said.  The investigative body rejected the  petition, citing the fact that "following the results of the  investigative and procedural actions taken by the Investigative  Committee, no preliminary data on the interference with the court's  activities were revealed during the preliminary investigation".  The  representative of the interests of Robert Kocharyan intends to appeal  the decision of the IC to the Prosecutor General's Office.

Earlier it was reported that the lawyer of the second president of  Armenia Robert Kocharyan Hovhannes Khudoyan, in a criminal case about  wiretapping a telephone conversation between the heads of the  National Security Service and the SIS, submitted a petition for  granting Kocharyan legal status of the victim. "I think the  recognition of the procedural status will be legitimate, and the  rejection will call into question the objectivity of the preliminary  investigation", Khudoyan stated.  To note, on October 1, a record of  the wiretap of the conversation between the heads of the National  Security Service and the SIS appeared in the network, during which  they discussed the case on March 1, 2008, and in this context the  need to arrest Robert Kocharyan. The head of the National Security  Service, Artur Vanetsyan, said that the orderers and performers of  the wiretapping were already identified, they are from Armenia, and  are widely known to the public. At the same time, he stressed that  documenting their guilt at this stage will be very difficult, almost  impossible.