YEREVAN. – I have not seen a decision to place attachment on property with such procedural violations. Ruben Hakobyan, the lawyer of Armenia’s third President Serzh Sargsyan, told this to reporters Friday.

As reported earlier, the court on Friday denied the defense's motion to lift the attachment on the property of Sargsyan, in connection with a criminal case involving him and several other defendants.

"The arguments and facts brought by us were so well-founded, whereas the decisions of the criminal prosecution bodies and the decisions of the lower courts were clearly groundless and unreasoned. It is clear that this decision of the court will not be substantiated and reasoned to the extent that it will dispel all our suspicions," Hakobyan added.

According to him, the judicial process of placing an attachment on property must comply with the respective requirements defined by the law. "There need to be grounds, intentions, and judicial guarantees must be ensured. In our deep conviction, the criminal prosecution authorities made the decision to place an attachment on the property [of Sargsyan] in the complete absence of its grounds, in the absence of intentions, and the procedural procedure was violated. The charge is clearly illegal and artificial; you will be convinced of that during the trial," ex-President Serzh Sargsyan's lawyer added.