The cases of overthrowing the constitutional order and 10 victims were joined. Chief of the SIS

The head of the Special Investigation Service of Armenia, Sasun Khachatryan, responded to the proposal of the second president of the Republic of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, regarding the removal of the secrecy of the preliminary investigation in the March 1 criminal case. In a conversation with journalists after the government session, Sasun Khachatryan emphasized that there is no procedure for declassifying the preliminary investigation. 

“Can you imagine what will happen if the secrecy of the preliminary investigation is revealed in its entirety? There are people who cooperate with the preliminary investigation, provide operative data. “Can you imagine what will happen if all this is revealed,” Khachatryan emphasized, Armenpress reports.

He clarified that this confidentiality refers only to the preliminary investigation stage. “During the trial stage, the case is examined in court in the open, if it does not contain a state secret, on the basis of which the trial can be limited to a certain extent. And the confidentiality of the preliminary investigation comes from the interests of the case and the interests of the persons involved in the case, that’s why I don’t think it’s realistic to make such a demand,” said the head of the CSI.

“The cases (overthrow of the constitutional order and 10 victims – ed.) have been joined, the proceedings are one. I did not listen to Kocharyan’s speech, where he says that the murders are not revealed, I don’t know where he got such information. Everything is being done, it will be done, I fully hope that the case, including those who committed murders, will be revealed,” he said.

When asked if there are new documents in the “March 1” case, he answered: “Yes, there are new documents, but I cannot make them public.”