ArmInfo. After a long illness, the former director of the National Security Service of Armenia, retired colonel-general Gorik Hakobyan, died. Hakobyan was 71 years old.
Hakobyan worked as the director of the National Security Service from November 8, 2004 to February 11, 2016. On February 12, 2016, by the decree of the Armenian president, Colonel-General Gorik Hakobyan was dismissed from the post of director of the National Security Service and appointed adviser to the head of state.