YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The volumes of the criminal case against the Karabakh committee was taken from the archives and handed to Levon Ter-Petrosian, the first President of the Republic of Armenia, on the order of the Prosecutor General by the Head of the Investigation Section of those times yet in November 6, 1996. This statement was made by Aghvan Hovsepian, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia, during the November 9 meeting with journalists, in response to the question concerning the results of the official investigation appointed on the occasion of the disappeared criminal case. According to him, the RA Prosecutor General's Office has sent a writing to the RA first President, asking to return the criminal case to the Prosecutor's Office. "Criminal cases are prohibited to be handed to another body by the investigation one by law, even the President of the republic has no right to demand the criminal cases and keep them in his hands," the RA Prosecutor said and added: "In my opinion, Levon Ter-Petrosian will be so sensilbe as to return the case to the prosecutor's office." Vahagn Hayotsian, the executive secretary of the Armenian National Movement party, refuted the statement of the RA Prosecutor General in his interview with a Noyan Tapan correspondent, saying that "it does not correspond to reality."

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