Advisor to the Prosecutor General: Manipulations in the case of  Tsarukyan are unacceptable

ArmInfo. It is regrettable that  manipulation as a tool continues to be applied in connection with  issues which are exclusively in the legal plane, with the aim of  generating certain public opinions against the prosecutor's office.  Gor Abrahamyan, Advisor to the Prosecutor General of Armenia, stated  this on his Facebook page, speaking about the case against the leader  of the "Prosperous Armenia" party Gagik Tsarukyan.

<Tsarukyan's lawyer said at a briefing that allegedly the motions  submitted to the National Assembly by RA Prosecutor General allegedly  contain evidence that was received after registration of these  motions at the parliament. The lawyer simply misinforms and misleads  the public, since the above statement is not true. On June 14 at  7:30pm R. Muradyan was detained in this criminal case, and a protocol  was drawn up about this. Immediately after that, on the same day,  from 8:00pm to 10:00pm, in accordance with the procedure established  by law, the latter was questioned in the procedural status of the  suspect and the information he provided was included in the petitions  of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia submitted by the  Prosecutor General. Muradyan was questioned for the second time in  the status of a suspect, and confirmed earlier these testimonies,  reporting additional data and clarifying the role of the persons  involved in the case. In the second statement, the circumstances  stated by Muradyan were not included in the petitions submitted by  the RA Prosecutor General, however, in the manner prescribed by law,  they were submitted to the court when considering the petition for  arrest as a preventive measure against Tsarukyan>, Abrahamyan said,  adding that the defense side of the politician is spreading  misinformation.

"The spread of such misinformation is an attempt to involve the  participants in the trial in the manipulative processes of a  primitive level, and are also aimed at creating excessive and  inappropriate excitement around the criminal case, which is  unacceptable behavior," he emphasized.

It should be reminded that today the court continues to review the  NSS motion for the application of a measure of restraint in the form  of arrest against the PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan. Charges were  brought against him on the grounds of part 2 of Article 154.2  (bribing voters) of the RA Criminal Code. It is about the elections  to the Council of Elders of Yerevan in 2017.