Ex-president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, who had friendly relations with Putin, may have property and accounts arrested

Based on the statement of the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia, the Anti-Corruption Court seized the property of ex-president Robert Kocharyan, his relatives and affiliates. We are talking about 20 units of real estate, two cars, deposits and securities worth $1.5 million, loans of 10 billion drams, shares in Armenian and foreign companies. The basis for the sanction is the illegal origin of the above.

Previously, Kocharyan was also accused of taking a bribe on an especially large scale.
The former president of Armenia is the only major politician in the country who has a personal relationship with Vladimir Putin. He himself described them as "very sincere, frank, direct."

A month after the start of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, the Hayastan political bloc, led by Kocharyan, condemned "egregious manifestations of anti-Russian sentiment in some countries." In August 2022, leaflets with the Hayastan emblem, the letter Z and the inscriptions: “Crimea is Russia. Donetsk is Russia. Lugansk is Russia. Mariupol is Russia. Zaporozhye is Russia. Kherson is Russia.

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