ArmInfo. "Listening to telephone conversations of high-ranking officials of Armenia is done for one simple reason - the corruption system feels that the ring is shrinking around it," the acting spokesman said just on the live page on his Facebook page.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.A little earlier the next wiretapping appeared on the network. This time, in addition to Arthur Vanetsyan and Sasun Khachatryan, heads of the National Security Service and the Soviet Union who appeared in the last recording, there is a recording with the participation of the Acting Prime Minister - recording by Nikol Pashinyan and Artur Vanetsyan. The conversation is conducted around Yuri Khachaturov and Robert Kocharyan. According to the "tapping", Vaniecian calls Pashinyan and reports to him that the head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan wants to arrest the CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov as part of the March 1, 2008 case. At the same time, he expresses concern that problems with the "Russians" may arise on this account.According to Pashinyan, the corruption system sees that the anti-corruption struggle promised by the new government is being implemented step by step. They, as pointed out. heads of government, the authorities will be engaged immediately after the parliamentary elections. "All corrupt officials, one by one, we will call for justice on behalf of the people, with the mandate of the people," he said.Pashinyan continues to assert that the interception is part of a declared war against the Armenian state and the people of the republic. "People who provoke this war will face a crushing defeat," he said.For an appropriate response to this anti-state activity, as Pashinyan said, it is necessary that people take part in the upcoming parliamentary elections and vote for the My Step block. As stressed by the. Heads of government, these elections, in the first place should be considered as the election of a new prime minister. "I hope to receive from the citizens of Armenia a very strong mandate to fight corruption and return the money stolen from the people to the last penny, in order to deliver a crushing blow to the forces that declared war on Armenian statehood," Pashinyan said.Touching on the content of the conversation, Nikol Pashinyan stated that it was completely mounted. And about. The prime minister recalled his statement of September 12 from the podium of the National Assembly, stating that certain parts of this telephone conversation were taken from there. "In particular, the passage where the head of the National Security Service says that the judge is scared, and I tell him what it means scared? You are the National Security Council and you must ensure the safety and independence of the judge. You can't defend, it means you're working incorrectly," he explained.However, according to the. the heads of the Armenian government, the actions of the leaders of the National Security Service and the Soviet Union unequivocally fit into the framework of their official powers. "There is no doubt that this (interception. Red,) is a manifestation of counter-revolution, there is no doubt that counter- revolutionary forces and corrupt officials will face a crushing defeat," said Nikol Pashinyan. He called in the upcoming parliamentary elections to vote for the My Step bloc headed by him, including for this purpose.Recall that on September 11, a recorded telephone conversation of the heads of the National Security Service and the Soviet Union appeared in the network. During an 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 Mikael Harutyunyan. In fact, the "wiretapping" was initiated two cases under the articlesfull "violation of the secrecy of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal, telegraph or other messages" and "unlawful acquisition of computer information in order to obtain information of particular value", as well as "abuse of office". On October 16, in a conversation with journalists, the head of the National Security Service, Artur Vanetsyan, stated that a circle of customers and telephone wiretaps was established, noting only that the customer was "widely known" to the public. According to him, we managed to listen to the conversation due to the fact that he was roaming at that moment. In addition, he said, the conversation in the network is the result of skilful editing. "On the indicated day, they had 10 telephone conversations." He (Sasun Khachatryan.red.) 8 times he called me, I called him 2 times. We had more than one conversation with him, which lasted 8 minutes and 40 seconds. Our longest conversation lasted 2.5 minutes, these conversations are fully assembled and presented as one conversation ", said Vanetcian.