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Armenia’s Court of Cassation on 12 September overturned the acquittal of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and other officials in 2021, sending the case to the Anti-Corruption Court for renewed investigation.

“Among other things, the Court of Cassation found that the first instance court ruling to terminate the criminal prosecution of Robert Kocharyan, Seyran Ohanyan, Armen Gevorgyan and Yuri Khachaturov was unlawful and after the recognition of Article 300.1 of the Criminal Code as unconstitutional and invalid and before the departure of the court to the deliberation room, the prosecutor was authorized to change the legal assessment of the charges levelled against them,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement on Tuesday.

“In response to the media requests, the Prosecutor General's Office would like to inform that taking into account the elements of a crime envisaged by another article of the Criminal Code in the acts incriminated to Robert Kocharyan and the others, the prosecutor dealing with the criminal case will soon submit a relevant decision to the Anti-Corruption Court,” the law-enforcement agency added.

No other details of the criminal case were revealed.