No forensic examinations were conducted: lawyer on the Bagrat Srbazan case

Attorney Hovhannes Khudoyan, speaking at a press conference on the “18 Righteous” case, said he would like to share a document that the head of the Investigative Committee of Armenia described as a terrorist plan written in the hand of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan.

“When the case was first being opened, the Investigative Committee and Armenia’s Prime Minister were constantly feeding information to the public, but this document was never presented at all. The reason is that the document was in fact of no significance whatsoever. Later, however, when criticism was raised on our part against senior law enforcement officials, I believe they felt the need to shore up their position with additional material, and once again the chairman of the Investigative Committee attempted to present disinformation to parliament, confidently asserting that the case contains a document written by Bagrat Srbazan,” Khudoyan said.

According to him, making such a claim requires credible evidence.

“The only way to assert that a given document was written by Bagrat Srbazan would be a forensic handwriting examination. No such examination has ever been conducted, and no attempt has ever been made to establish this through such an examination,” the attorney stressed.