Deputy police chief says few cases described by Interpol as political

Deputy police chief Ara Fidanyan said he cannot give any comments now regarding the Interpol document published by deputy Taguhi Tovmasyan.

According to the document, Interplot refused the Armenian side in declaring search for ex-prosecutor general Gevorg Kostanyan considering the case against him political.

“As to the circumstance that the search may be suspended or not, and why we have not provided, it was more the function of the preliminary investigation body and not the police,” Fidanyan stressed.

As to whether the police do not have information about it, the deputy chief stressed that they receive information about big number of people and does not remember about information on a concrete person.

“Over 500 people are searched by Interpol, I cannot remember all,” he said.

As to whether the police received response about political persecution, the deputy chief said for some cases they did.