Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, reacting to a French media report alleging he bought a mansion in France worth over €3 million, again leveled accusations against former President Robert Kocharyan during the June 5 cabinet meeting.

Bagrat Mikoyan, head of Kocharyan’s office, issued a response, reports News.am .

“We witnessed yet another summer flare-up, this time with legal distortion. Everything about this is long clear. The moment of reckoning is approaching for the figure buried to the neck in blood and plunder, and the patient’s soul grows ever more inflamed,” Mikoyan said.

He further claimed that massive sums—$65 million from ANIF, $100 million from the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund—are now materializing as mansions in various countries. “And that clown continues his delusions about islands.”

“The self-proclaimed ignoramus doesn’t even know that dismissal of a case due to the statute of limitations does not equate to a finding of guilt. True guilt is evading punishment via amnesty, as he did,” Mikoyan argued.

He concluded that former President Kocharyan will address the legal circumstances surrounding the “Silva” case statute of limitations in an upcoming press conference.

Earlier during the government session, Prime Minister Pashinyan stated that although Robert Kocharyan has not been officially convicted, the court has documented that he accepted bribes. Pashinyan emphasized that Kocharyan agreed to terminate the bribery case based on statute of limitations, which he claimed amounts to an admission of guilt.