Monday, September 17 2018 20:50

ArmInfo. During the  searches at the office of the Yerevan.Today news portal, one computer  processor and three information carriers were confiscated. The press  service of the Armenian Defense Ministry told ArmInfo.

The department was reminded that searches in the portal's office took  place in the framework of the criminal case on the wiretapping of   the telephone conversation between the heads of the National Security  Service and the Special Investigation Service. "The above-mentioned  devices were confiscated with the purpose of conducting an  examination to find out the circumstances that are important in the  investigation of the above criminal case," the RA Investigation  Commitee message reads. 

The Office noted that the searches were carried out for a number of  other addresses, in accordance with the legislation of Armenia.

It should be noted that in the morning of September 17, law  enforcement bodies of Armenia conducted searches in the editorial  office of Yerevan.Today and the house of its chief editor Sevak  Hakobyan. The searches were carried out on the grounds that the site  allegedly published a record of the conversation between the heads of  the National Security Service and the Special Investigation Service  two days earlier than the rest of the media did. The reason for this  statement was the Google search engine. The search engine indicates  that the publication of the record on this portal was made two days  before it appeared in other media. However, the editorial office of  the portal claims that it published a conversation record at the same  time as all other Armenian media, but there were simply problems with  the search engine. A similar situation, added to the editorial staff,  was formed with the portal of the newspaper "Hraparak". The same  search engine indicates that the record on this portal appeared for 5  days before the day of publication in the remaining media.   Meanwhile, the editorial office of Yerevan.Today on September 12,  having noticed the problem of the search engine, issued a refutation.  "The network spread information that our website posted a record of  the conversation between the heads of the National Security Service  and the CAS two days ago, demonstrating some" evidence. "Internet  experts have already denied this, noting that the system Google  crashes.  incidentally, on September 11, at the same time, about 14  hours, as the rest of the colleagues and users of the network.On the  site the material was posted about 15 hours when the information was  already widely covered in the media, "the report says.