After examining the statements made by the former Mayor of Yerevan Hayk Marutyan at the session of Yerevan Council of Elders no evidence or factual data were found which could provide evidence of a particular crime, said Gor Abrahamyan, Adviser to Prosecutor General of Armenia, in reply to the inquiry of Armenpress.

Gor Abrahamyan noted that on December 22 during the session of the Council of Elders of Yerevan, some members of the Council made statements that the leaders of My step faction used their real or supposed influence and put pressure on some members of the faction in order to remove the Mayor of Yerevan Hayk Marutyan from his post. Marutyan himself has also made statements regarding certain phone calls from officials in connection with the dismissal of employees, or the creation of favorable conditions for his close associates. The coordinator of the NGO Union of Informed Citizens Daniel Ioannisyan was also reported in this connection. The media publications and the report of the NGO were handed over to the police for checking the circumstances mentioned in them.

As a result of the check-up the police found no violations of Article 311.2 - exerting real or supposed influence, and Article 308 - abuse of power, as well as Article 309 - exceeding official powers. A decision was made not to institute criminal proceedings.

As for the results of the examinations on Hayk Marutyan's allegations, Abrahamyan said they remained without consequences.

"The problem is that Hayk Marutyan was invited to the police as part of the investigation of the mentioned circumstances, but when he appeared, he refused to testify and give any explanations. He said that he could not specify the specific persons and circumstances, he spoke about it simply pointing to his ideological and principled approaches, therefore, he could not provide any information and explanations about these events and did not want to give a report about the crime. That is, as a result of the research carried out on this part, no information pointing to the signs of a specific crime, no substantiating circumstances or factual data were found," Abrahamyan concluded.