ArmInfo. On April 26, the Minister of Defense of Armenia, in an interview with journalists, refused to assess the intention of the former head of judicial acts compulsory enforcement service Mihran Poghosyan to obtain political asylum in the Russian Federation.
When asked how correct Poghosyan's actions were, if only from a moral point of view, given that he was a military man, a Major General of Justice, Tonoyan replied that he would give assessments if it were a general of the army. "If he were a general of the Armed Forces, I would call it a betrayal," he said. It should be noted that recently it became known that accused of embezzlement in a particularly large scale and abuse of office, entailing grave consequences by negligence Mihran Poghosyan asked for political asylum in Russia.
To recall, earlier the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia handed over to the Russian side a package of documents for the extradition of a former high-ranking official who was detected in Petrozavodsk.