ArmInfo.In the near future, the Investigation Committee will speak with explanations on the case of wiretapping of a telephone conversation between the heads of the RA National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsyan and the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan. This was stated by Artur Vanetsyan on November 19 in an interview with journalists.
According to him, the Investigation Committee is continuing the investigation in the framework of the criminal case, the examination is carried out. "I can not say anything at the moment. The Investigation Committee will make appropriate statements on this issue in the near future," - said Vanetsyan.
Speaking about the upcoming revelations on the case of ex-President Robert Kocharyan, Vanetsyan refrained from announcing the details. According to him, the operational work on the Kocharyan case continues and only after its completion will it be possible to answer the questions posed. "If I make statements now, speculation will begin. We'll better complete the operational work, prepare all the necessary justifications and, when there is a corresponding publication, we will be able to answer all the questions," said Vaniecian.
Concerning the statement of the Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that an unprecedented criminal case was initiated against one of the deputies of the National Assembly on the fact of bribery, the head of the National Security Council said that we would inform the details in the coming days. On September 11, a record of a telephone conversation between the Director of the National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan and the head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan appeared in the network. During the 8-minute conversation, they are discussing the arrest of ex-President of Armenia Robert Kocharian, as well as criminal cases initiated against CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov and former Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunyan. After that, on Facebook, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that, perhaps, the purpose of the interception was political sabotage. Already in the evening, Nikol Pashinyan said at a rally within the framework of the election campaign to the Council of Yerevan Elders that interception of the heads of the special services was a conspiracy, a crime against the Armenian statehood. On September 12, the Investigative Committee (IC) of Armenia accepted the criminal case filed in the Directorate for Supervision over the investigation of particularly important cases of the RA Prosecutor General's Office regarding violation of the secrecy of the telephone conversation, recording and publication of the audio recording. The case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 146 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia and paragraph 4 of Part 3 of Article 254 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia The preliminary investigation is entrusted to the General Directorate for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Body. An investigation team has been set up and, together with the investigative bodies, the necessary actions are taken to clarify all the circumstances of the case, as well as to establish the circle of persons who have committed the alleged crime. On September 13, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Armenia on violation of the secrecy of the telephone conversation, recording and publicizing the audio recording between the Director of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan and the Chairman of the Special Investigation Service (SSS) of Armenia Sasun Khachatryan launched a new criminal case - under Part 1 of Article . 309 of the RA Criminal Code (abuse of power). On the same day, a decision was made in the National Assembly of Armenia to establish a temporary commission on the fact of obstructing the administration of justice, violation of the right to a fair trial and telephone conversation secrets.