Officers arrived early. CivilNet put the search of MP Levon Kocharyan's home at about 7:00; News.am carried the former president's arrival at the committee at 08:48; by 09:24 Armenpress was reporting searches at addresses belonging to Robert Kocharyan and members of his family. By midday the committee had published no statement on the case, the charges in it, or Kocharyan's status inside the building.
On Monday the National Assembly opened debate on the government's programme for 2026 to 2031, and Levon Kocharyan, a deputy of the opposition Armenia Alliance, accused the government of exerting pressure on the courts. Pashinyan answered with the family fortune: “You will have to return everything, piece by piece, to the Republic of Armenia.”
No official link ties the exchange to the morning. The committee has named no case and given no legal status for the former president; the record as of publication holds a floor exchange and, the next morning, officers at the family's addresses.
You will have to return everything, piece by piece, to the Republic of Armenia.
The same session raised the temperature elsewhere. Pashinyan addressed Catholicos Garegin II by his secular name, Ktrich Nersisyan, said he “should be called upon to retire”, accused him of turning the church into “an institution of war propaganda”, and said a report is being prepared on a “deep, systemic crisis” in the Armenian Apostolic Church, with steps to “free the Pontifical Residence at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and organize new Catholicos elections”. Opposition deputies banged their desks; the ruling benches applauded.
The calendar gives both threads a near date. A court in Armavir takes up the Garegin II case on Friday, under judge Serzh Rushanyan, who took the file on 14 August after the first judge stepped aside. The programme debate continues in the chamber; no vote date had been announced by Tuesday morning.