ARMENPRESS. Vice President of the Investigative Committee of Armenia Arsen Ayvazyan has said that the investigation into the Amulsar gold mine criminal case will continue because recently new information has emerged.
Ayvazyan told reporters the decision to continue the investigation is based on a memo from the ministry of environment.
“We’ve received a respective memo which includes new information, new data which is necessary to be viewed in the whole of the case, to observe and investigate the information in the memo,” he said.
He said the memo received from the environment ministry relates to information which exists in the criminal case regarding Amulsar.
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“Due to this we need to discuss, study the information in the memo and combine it with previously existing information,” he said.
“We are studying the new data regarding the conclusion issued by ELARD, and if new questions emerge, which will bear a specialized nature, in such situation we have the opportunity envisaged by the Criminal Procedures Code to order an additional or double audit,” Ayvazyan said.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan
