Ally and brother-in-arms of detained MP speaks out: “How can someone degenerate from hero to thief”

Republican Party (HHK) lawmaker Seyran Saroyan, the former general who is a close ally and brother-in-arms of arrested MP Manvel Grigoryan, says he has been shocked by the discoveries regarding Grigoryan.

Speaking to reporters ahead of the special session of the parliament today, Saroyan said that the arrested lawmaker is a very closed man and even his own children don’t know what he owns or not. “Manvel’s right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing”, he said. “No one knew what Manvel had, how was I supposed to know?”

Without the slightest mention of a presumption of innocent, he said what Grigoryan did is an “embarrassment”.

“I am shocked since yesterday, the letters of the children…..I was dead, buried. I had doctors by my side yesterday. How can someone degenerate from a hero to a thief of canned food. What didn’t he have, what did he lack…”, he said.

Saroyan said he initially thought that the national security agents had detained Grigoryan in suspicion of illegal possession of firearms. “Who would think that this man would go so low. I won’t speak to him”, he said.