A two-month pretrial detention has been applied as a preventive measure to former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan.

Axar.az informs, citing Armenian media, that the spokesperson for the Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia, Marina Ohanjanyan, made the announcement.

“Taking into account the public interest, it is hereby informed that the Anti-Corruption Court (presided over by Judge S. Dadoyan) has fully granted the investigator’s petition and detention has been applied as a preventive measure to R.K. [i.e. Robert Kocharyan],” she said.

The Anti-Corruption Court has been examining since Wednesday the petition submitted by the investigative body to remand former president Robert Kocharyan in custody.

At night, Kocharyan was taken to the hospital again on the instructions of doctors, and the court examination of the aforesaid petition continued without him. Robert Kocharyan has been charged with abuse of official authority, money laundering on a particularly large scale, and receiving a particularly large bribe.