ArmInfo.As of November 28, law enforcement agencies do not have information about the location of the former Defense Minister, former Chief Military Inspector of the Republic of Armenia, Mikayel Harutyunyan, who was wanted in early July this year. as part of the "March 1" case. This was stated by the Prosecutor General of Armenia Artur Davtyan in an interview with journalists.
According to him, Mikael Harutyunyan has not yet been discovered. Armenia clarifies the issue of citizenship of the former head of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Colonel-General Mikael Harutyunyan.
Commenting on the fact that Russia had previously declared Harutyunyan's Russian citizenship and, accordingly, the impossibility of transferring it to another country, Davtyan said that there was no official communication from the Russian side.
Recall that in connection with the investigation of the events that took place from March 1 to March 2, 2008 in Armenia, on July 3, a criminal case was initiated against former Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunyan and other persons in connection with the violent overthrow of the constitutional order in Armenia February 23 to March 1, 2008. As reported by the press service of the Special Investigation Service, Mikael Harutyunyan and other high-ranking officials, violating the Armenian Constitution, declared martial law, using armed forces to resolve domestic political issues and against peaceful demonstrators. On August 31, Interfax, citing an informed source, said that the request for the extradition of the ex-Minister of Defense Harutyunyan, who was on the interstate wanted list, had been received by law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation and is currently under consideration. "It was previously decided that extradition would be denied because it was established that Mikael Harutyunyan had a Russian passport since 2002," the source said, reminding that, according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, Russian citizens are not issued to foreign countries, including for criminal prosecution. On September 14, the head of the Armenian police, Valery Osipyan, told reporters that he did not know that the former defense minister, now accused of overthrowing the constitutional order, Mikael Harutyunyan is a citizen of the Russian Federation. According to him, he learned about it, when Russia canceled the international search for Mikael Harutyunyan on its territory by sending a notification to the RA Police.