Lawyer Deliberately Misinforms and Misleads the Public: Gor Abrahamyan

It is very unfortunate that manipulation as a tool continues to be ruthlessly applied, exclusively in connection with issues in the legal sphere, to generate certain public sentiments against the prosecution. The latest attempt was made yesterday by the lawyer of the accused G. Tsarukyan during a briefing, claiming that a testimony was included in the submissions presented to the National Assembly by the Prosecutor General of Armenia, allegedly obtained after the submissions were registered in the National Assembly.

This was stated by Gor Abrahamyan, an advisor to the Prosecutor General, on his Facebook page. He said, “The lawyer is deliberately misinforming and misleading the public because the statements we made do not correspond to reality. On June 14, 2020, at 19:30, R. Muradyan was arrested in connection with this criminal case, and a corresponding record was drawn up regarding this. Immediately thereafter, on the same day, from 20:00 to 22:00, in accordance with the law, he was interrogated in the status of a suspect, and the information he provided was included in the submissions presented to the National Assembly by the Prosecutor General of Armenia. The next day, on June 15, from 17:40 to 19:00, R. Muradyan was interrogated for the second time as a suspect with the participation of a defender, during which he reiterated the testimony previously given, providing additional details and clarifying the roles of the persons involved in the case.

In the second testimony, the circumstances presented by Muradyan were not included in the documents submitted by the Prosecutor General, but were presented to the court according to the legally established procedure during the consideration of the detention request for G. Tsarukyan. Under these conditions, despite having at hand the package of documents necessary to overcome the highest threshold of reasonable suspicion for the request for detention submitted to the court by the investigating authority, the lawyer, not lawfully possessing information about other materials in the criminal case, specifically R. Muradyan’s testimony given on June 14, 2020, disseminated disinformation. Spreading such misinformation is an attempt to draw the participants in the proceedings into primitive manipulative processes aimed at creating unnecessary and undue turmoil around the criminal case, which is an unacceptable behavior,” the statement concluded.