Kocharyan calls "nonsense" the  criminal case against him on charges  of money laundering

ArmInfo.  The second  president of Armenia Robert Kocharian commented on the statement of  the head of the National Security Council of Armenia Arthur Vanetsyan  about the initiation of a second criminal case in his money  laundering (in the first case he is accused of overthrowing the  constitutional system, ed.).

"This is another nonsense, I personally never engaged in business, my  family members have been engaged in this for 15-16 years, they have  never occupied public office, are engaged in business and have  achieved certain successes." All that my family owns is created from  scratch or "Everything is registered in the state registry of  Armenia, and there is no secret about it, and it's certainly not  about billions or hundreds of thousands of millions." I think the  time will come when the person who announced this will answer for his  statement, "he said. Kocharyan in an interview with Yerevan.Today.

According to him, new revelations made an attempt to distract the  public from the scandalous recording of the telephone conversation  between the heads of the National Security Service and the SSS. "Our  today's authorities, answering questions that do not know the  answers, immediately start talking about corruption, regardless of  what is happening in the country," Kocharyan said.

Touching upon the statement of the head of the National Security  Service that he purchased the Congress Hotel for a bribe of $ 6  million, Kocharian stressed: "The hotel was acquired in 2014-15 when  I was 6-7 years old, did not hold a position, what bribe is here I'm  waiting for proof of all that was said, and if they do not prove it,  then I'll start talking with these people on profanity. And the most  interesting is that the person who made such a statement himself for  many years working at various posts in the NSS, was engaged in large  business, was in a very warm attitude niyah with a number of  oligarchs. "

According to him, 95% of the list of enterprises and facilities  associated with its name, has nothing to do with his family. "You  have the opportunity to verify all this. The authorities well know in  which business we figure, all this information they can get in the  state registry, "- assured Kocharyan.

Note that during the press conference on the eve of the Director of  the National Security Service Arthur Vanetsyan announced the  initiation of a new criminal case against Kocharian on charges of  money laundering. Vanetsyan showed the document on several pages, in  which, according to him, all Kocharyan's multi-million-dollar  property and illegal schemes for its acquisition are indicated. "It's  about hundreds of millions of dollars," Vanetjan assured.