Levon Chakhmakhchyan arrested in Moscow
ArmRadio.am
01.02.2007 13:44
Member of the Council of the Russian Federation, ex-Senator from
Kalmikia Levon Chakhmakhchyan was arrested in Moscow, his attorney
Boris Kuznetsov informed. `My client has now been taken to the
Prosecutor General’s Office, where he will be questioned. Later he
will most probably taken to Basmann Court for getting an arrest order,
but all these actions are illegal,’ said Kuznetsov.
`Chakhmakhchyan has not been deprived of Deputy’s immunity. Besides,
the decision of the Supreme Court that there are criminal elements in
his activity, did not come into force, since we applied to the Court
of Appeal in time, and the hearing in the Supreme Coirt it scheduled
March 6,’ the attorney clarified.
`Possibly, the Prosecutor Hgeneral’s Office is not informed that the
verdict of the Supreme Court has not come into force,’ he said.
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