YEREVAN. – Hraparak newspaper of Armenia writes: According to our information, prosecutors overseeing the criminal cases of [third President] Serzh Sargsyan and [ex-Prosecutor General] Gevorg Kostanyan refuse those cases.

Many prosecutors either refuse to look into these cases or demand that the directors to give them written instructions.

“Apart from the moral side of the issue, prosecutors understand that any case with illegal, incomplete evidence will sooner or later cause serious problems for them, and the leadership will quietly evade responsibility by blaming them. They understand that one day these same witnesses (…) will tell in exchange for what they have given testimony,” our source said.

We were told that prosecutor Hakob Tadevosyan, who oversaw Serzh Sargsyan's case, had dropped out of the case, and on December 20, he was fired altogether. Arevik Khachatryan, the spokesperson for the prosecutor's office, said: "According to his own petition." Currently, the Chief of the Department of Supervision over the Legality of Pre-Trial Proceedings at the Special Investigation Service of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia is exercising prosecutorial oversight over Serzh Sargsyan's case.