ArmInfo. Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan believes that he has not violated the presumption of innocence. On October 27, he told this answering to a question about his statement in parliament about the possibility of bringing to justice one of the MPs of the National Assembly.
To note, on October 24, Nikol Pashinyan stated in the Armenian parliament that the case on the largest bribe in the history of the Third Republic was opened, and one of the MPs of the National Assembly will be arrested in this case. "The same people say that the Prime Minister stopped fighting corruption and began to carry out dark deals. For 20 years, the former authorities have asked me to make a similar deal with them, "he said, adding that he did not violate the presumption of innocence by his words. "And when it is stated that there is corruption in Armenia, there was corruption and corruption was encouraged and was associated with the higher strata of society, do these statements also violate someone's presumption of innocence or not? In both cases, no names are mentioned, if someone is brought in as a suspect, it means there are grounds for this which will be open and transparent, "the acting Prime Minister stated. Commenting on the question how he is familiar with the details of the cases under investigation, if the investigating body does not notify him, Pashinyan said that the NSS is an accountable structure to the prime minister and when it takes operational actions, this is reported to the Prime Minister. On the question of which faction the deputy in the case of bribery is in, the prime minister said: "You are talking about the presumption of innocence. Are you my accomplices, or are you pushing me to disclose the data?", Pashinyan asked a rhetorical question.