ArmInfo.Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, during his live broadcast on Facebook, gave a political comment on the audio recording of a conversation between National Security Service (NSS) Director Artsrun Vanetsyan and the head of the Special Investigative Service(SIS) Sasun Khachatryan.
He said that Vanetsyan himself will tell about the conversation at his press conference. "Of course, the whole conversation can be commented. But the most important thing is that somebody listened to the director of the National Security Service, on what grounds? Did he have a legal right to do this? " , Pashinyan wondered.
Then he said that corrupt officials - Robert Kocharyan, Serzh Sargsyan, Gagik Khachatryan, Manvel Grigoryan, Taron Margaryan feel that the time has come when they will have to say goodbye to the stolen funds, therefore they are attempting various steps. "But we will not use blackmail, we will not allow this, the case on March 1 has already been opened, the killers should be in prison, the stolen goods should be returned to the people. Now it's your turn to consolidate in the fight against murderers and corrupt officials, "Pashinyan said.
Touching on the fragment of the conversation in which the head of the SIS claims that the instruction to arrest the CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov in the framework of the case on March 1, 2008 came from the Prime Minister, Pashinyan explained: "I said yesterday that I trust all those who were appointed to the posts of heads of law enforcement structures, because I demanded exceptionally legitimate work from them, and if the head of this or that service tells me that someone needs to be arrested, I believe that he acts within the law and I say - arrest. " Commenting on another fragment from the conversation, when the head of the NSS acknowledges that the judge who is considering the Kocharyan's case called him and asked for instructions on the verdict of the second president, Pashinyan said: "Yes, I have already said many times that as part of the former corrupt system, many judges until now, by inertia, call the authorities, trying to get permission from them for certain actions. "
To note, in the record of the conversation between the head of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan and the head of the Special Investigative Service Sasun Khachatryan, the parties are discussing the arrest of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, as well as the danger of incarcerating the CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, as "Russia was hardly soothed". Vanetsyan gives Khachatryan legal advice on what measure of restraint can be taken against Khachaturov instead of arrest. They also talk about former defense minister Mikhael Harutyunyan, lawyer Vahe Grigoryan, a friend of former defense minister Seyran Ohanyan and others. At the beginning of the conversation, Khachatryan tells Vanetsyan what Robert Kocharyan said when he saw the secret order by Mikael Harutyunyan, which was the reason for launching criminal prosecution against them (according to this order, allegedly, the army was involved in the events of March 1, 2008, ed. note). Khachatryan states that Kocharyan's lawyer, Ruben Sahakyan stated that this is political persecution, he asked the data of all the investigators participating in the case. "In general, he is engaged in stupid things," Sasun Khachatryan said. In response to Vanetsyan's question about how Kocharyan reacted to the order, Khachatryan states: "He was furious." Vanetsyan further confesses: "A judge called me who must pass a sentence on the arrest, he was scared, said he should study all the grounds before the verdict, I said you can study, but Kocharyan should be arrested in any case''.