YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. Levon Ter-Petrosian, the first President of the Republic of Armenia, has responded to the writing sent by Ashot Yesayan, the Head of the personnel of the RA Prosecutor General's Office, on November 9 on returning the volumes of the case against Karabakh Committee, expressing readiness to return the volumes of the case to the archives of the prosecutor's office. As of 17:00 on November 10, five collaborators of the prosecutor's office were conducting the reception of the 61 volumes of the case, a corresponding legal deed is to be formed at the end of the process. This information was provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by Sona Truzian, the Spokesperson of the RA Prosecutor General. "The prosecutor's office had not received any response or writing from Levon Ter-Petrosian during the official investigation, the statement of Levon Ter-Petrosian on the fact that the volumes were in his hands only followed the statement of the RA Prosecutor General on the results of the official investigation," the Spokesperson of the RA Prosecutor General said. It should be mentioned that an official investigation was appointed by Aghvan Hovsepian, the RA Prosecutor General, in connection with the disappearance of the volumes of the above-mentioned case, which found out that the outlay of the volumes was recorded in the register of the archives of the prosecutor's office on November 6, 1996, however, there was no note on the return of the volumes of the case. It was discovered during the official investigation that the volumes were handed to the representative of Levon Ter-Petrosian through Suren Gyozalian, the Head of the Investigation Department of those times, on the order of Artavazd Gevorgian, the RA former Prosecutor General. A number of officials of the above-mentioned times, including the Prosecutor General and the Head of the Investigation Department, have given explanations about this during the official investigation.

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