Armenia demands $1.7 million allocated to families of victims of 2008 riots be confiscated from Kocharyan, number of individuals

The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia demands the confiscation of 670 million drams ($1.7 million) from former President Robert Kocharyan and other former officials, which the government paid to the victims and families of those killed in the case of the mass riots of March 1, 2008, Report informs referring to Armenian media.

The information was published on the Datalex website of judicial and legal information.

The claim was sent to the Anti-Corruption Court. The prosecutor's office demands the specified amount from Kocharyan, former Vice Speaker Armen Gevorgyan, then Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Seyran Ohanyan and former Deputy Minister of Defense Yuri Khachaturov - in equal shares.

In 2019, the Armenian parliament adopted a law on providing assistance to the relatives of those killed and injured during the dispersal of the protests on March 1, 2008. That same year, the Ministry of Justice allocated 720 million drams for this.