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The court session on the case of the former investigator of the RA NSS Investigation Department Vladimir Kotolyan accused of taking bribes of a particularly big amount did not take place due to the absence of one of the lawyers of the defendant Vagharshak Gevorgyan. As the defendant’s other lawyer Emil Petrosyan informs a big part of defense speeches must be presented by V. Gevorgyan so he did not consider holding the court session possible. He also informed that his colleague stated that he would not manage to announce 70 pages of defense speech and if he left it unfinished, it would not be correctly perceived.

The defense speeches will be published at the session of the Court of Center and Norq Marash administrative districts of Yerevan under the presidency of the Judge Mkhitar Papoyan on November 22.

The accuser Ashot Nadoyan requested in his accusation speech to sentence the defendant to 7 years of imprisonment and confiscation of 1/3 of his private property. According to the accuser, it was revealed by the trial that the former investigator of the RA NSS Investigation Department Vladimir Kotolyan received a bribe of a particularly big amount, 4000 USD, in order not to initiate a criminal case, not to bring the guilty people accountable with respect to the revealed drugs during his investigation. According to the accuser the person involved in the case of drugs Hovhannes Gevorgyan always gave accusing testimonies against the defendant, the contradicting testimonies of the latter sent to different instances are conditioned with the pressure made on him by the interested people.

Let us recall that there is already one judgment for this case, by which he was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment. The sentence was overruled and sent to the court for a new inquiry.