Armine Navruzyan, spokesperson of the Anti-Corruption Court, told “Azatutyan” that Seyran Ohanyan, accused in the “March 1” case, former Minister of Defense, did not appear at today’s court session. That is why the judge made a decision to detain him.
The second president, Robert Kocharyan, and his former subordinates were acquitted in 2021, when the Constitutional Court recognized as unconstitutional the charge against Kocharyan of subverting the constitutional order.
The Court of Cassation annulled this decision and sent the case to a new examination, by which Kocharyan and his former subordinates were charged with the article of passing official powers, for which the prescribed period of limitation has passed.
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