Thursday, February 21 2019 18:25

ArmInfo. The Director of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia, Artur Vanetsyan, did not rule out that he would be questioned again in a criminal case within  the framework of the well-known " wiretapping". He told this to  journalists on February 21.  

According to him, in connection with the publication in the network of the recording of his telephone conversation with the head of the Special Investigative Service, he  was already interrogated. However, according to Vanetsyan, it is not  excluded that he will be invited for interrogation again. "Judging by  my operational experience, perhaps another interrogation will be  required. I am ready for this," Vanetsyan said.  As the head of the  National Security Service pointed out, investigative actions were  carried out with him, in particular, all data from the telephone was  taken.

However, he did not rule out that there will be new "stuffing" into  the network and new wiretaps. On the question of whether the NSS  itself listens on the telephone conversations of the media, Artur  Vanetsyan stated: "We do not wiretap journalists at all." 

To recall, another "wiretap" appeared in the internet on December 5.  The first was widely distributed on the Internet on September 11.  This time, in addition to Artur Vanetsyan and Sasun Khachatryan,  heads of the National Security Service and the Speical Investigative  Service who appeared in the previous recording, there is a recording  with the participation of the Acting Prime Minister - conversation  between Nikol Pashinyan and Artur Vanetsyan. The conversation is  conducted around Yuri Khachaturov and Robert Kocharyan. According to  the "tapping", Vanetsyan calls Pashinyan and reports to him that the  head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan wants to  arrest the CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov as part of the  March 1, 2008 case. At the same time, he expresses concern that  problems with the "Russians" may arise in this regard. "Listening to  telephone conversations of high-ranking officials of Armenia is done  for one simple reason - the corruption system feels that the ring is  shrinking around it," the acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol  Pashinyan told then Facebook on the air