Arthur Vanetsyan: In the near future, the IC  will make a  clarification on the case of tapping

ArmInfo.In the near future, the Investigation Committee will speak with explanations on the case of wiretapping of a telephone conversation between the heads of the  RA National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsyan and the Special  Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan. This was stated by Artur  Vanetsyan on November 19 in an interview with journalists.

According to him, the Investigation Committee is continuing the  investigation in the framework of the criminal case, the examination  is carried out. "I can not say anything at the moment. The  Investigation Committee will make appropriate statements on this  issue in the near future," - said Vanetsyan.

Speaking about the upcoming revelations on the case of ex-President  Robert Kocharyan, Vanetsyan refrained from announcing the details.  According to him, the operational work on the Kocharyan case  continues and only after its completion will it be possible to answer  the questions posed. "If I make statements now, speculation will  begin. We'll better complete the operational work, prepare all the  necessary justifications and, when there is a corresponding  publication, we will be able to answer all the questions," said  Vaniecian.

Concerning the statement of the Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  stated that an unprecedented criminal case was initiated against one  of the deputies of the National Assembly on the fact of bribery, the  head of the National Security Council said that we would inform the  details in the coming days. 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. On September 12, the Investigative Committee (IC)  of Armenia accepted the criminal case filed in the Directorate for  Supervision over the investigation of particularly important cases of  the RA Prosecutor General's Office regarding violation of the secrecy  of the telephone conversation, recording and publication of the audio  recording. The case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 146 of the  Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia and paragraph 4 of Part 3 of  Article 254 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia The  preliminary investigation is entrusted to the General Directorate for  Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative  Body. An investigation team has been set up and, together with the  investigative bodies, the necessary actions are taken to clarify all  the circumstances of the case, as well as to establish the circle of  persons who have committed the alleged crime. On September 13, the  General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Armenia on violation  of the secrecy of the telephone conversation, recording and  publicizing the audio recording between the Director of the National  Security Service (NSS) of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan and the Chairman of  the Special Investigation Service (SSS) of Armenia Sasun Khachatryan  launched a new criminal case - under Part 1 of Article . 309 of the  RA Criminal Code (abuse of power). On the same day, a decision was  made in the National Assembly of Armenia to establish a temporary  commission on the fact of obstructing the administration of justice,  violation of the right to a fair trial and telephone conversation  secrets.