ArmInfo. The National Security Service of Armenia initiated a criminal case against a US citizen on charges of attempting to organize terrorist acts on the territory of Armenia.
According to the report of the National Security Service of Armenia, due to the operational-intelligence activities carried out by the employees of the Service, it was found out that a US citizen of Armenian origin, R.K. in 2017, registered in the social network Facebook under the fake name "Martin Avagyan" and published materials on the creation of the group "Fighters for Justice", the tactics of its activities, as well as the charter and ideology. "At the same time, the same page spread propaganda about the use of violence against various Armenian political and legal entities, thus creating a general climate of fear." According to preliminary information received, RK, with the aim of destabilizing the situation in Armenia, terrorizing the population, the provision of unlawful pressure on state structures to attract people to arson, explosions and other acts of public violence aimed at causing death or serious bodily harm to the representative Armenian law enforcement bodies and other officials tried to create criminal cooperation, involving both Armenian residents and Armenians living abroad, by collecting people, and received information that he also called for organizing terrorist acts in Armenia acts, providing both directions and means for their implementation," the ministry said.
The department notes that a criminal case was opened in the National Security Service of Armenia on the grounds of articles 34-223 part 1 and articles 35-217, part 3, point 1 of the RA Criminal Code, it was decided to involve RK as an accused. As a precautionary measure, to elect arrest. The accused is wanted. "Taking into account the circumstance that the accused US citizen resides in the United States, the location of his location was ascertained. The Prosecutor General's Office transmitted this information to the relevant competent structures of the United States to suppress the crimes being prepared. The National Security Service of Armenia takes the necessary measures to identify RK accomplices in the territory of the Republic of Armenia" , the ministry said in a statement.