ArmInfo. The operation under the code name "to put all the guards of high-ranking officials on the asphalt" was and will be continued. This was stated by. Chief of Police of Armenia Valery Osipyan on October 18 in an interview with journalists.
In particular, according to Osipyan, the police, within the framework of their authority, control the processes related to the fact that certain persons move around the republic accompanied by armed guards. However, the head of the police abstained from sharing statistics on how many of them the forces of law and order had already managed to disarm and .
As the Chief of Police, the department headed by him, assured, he was watching the situation and it was not necessary for the prime minister to constantly remind about it. , - he explained.
On September 11, a record of a telephone conversation between the Director of the National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan and the head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan appeared in the network. During the 8-minute conversation, they are discussing the arrest of ex-President of Armenia Robert Kocharian, as well as criminal cases initiated against CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov and former Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunyan. After that, on Facebook, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that, perhaps, the purpose of the interception was political sabotage. Already in the evening, Nikol Pashinyan said at a rally within the framework of the election campaign to the Council of Yerevan Elders that interception of the heads of the special services was a conspiracy, a crime against the Armenian statehood. "I instructed the National Security Service and the police to find the conspirators in the shortest time possible and subject them to the most severe responsibility. All these "special services" and illegally armed groups will be found and destroyed, "Pashinyan said. He ordered the National Security Service and the police to carry out raids against the protection of oligarchs and high- ranking officials." Put the so-called guards on the asphalt and disarm everyone. Two hours later, the head of the National Security Service, Artur Vanetsyan, and the police chief, Valery Osipyan, should report to me on the work done and the results achieved. No one escapes justice ", said Pashinyan.