Armen Grigoryan: The investigation should find out how the documents  on the March 1 case turned out to be in the media

ArmInfo. It is too early to make assumptions about how the documents came to the media, the investigation should find out. The Secretary of the Security Council  of Armenia Armen Grigoryan stated this in an interview with reporters  on August 8, commenting on an article published yesterday by BBC  about events on March 1, 2008, which contains a link to materials and  interrogations in this case.

Grigoryan noted that there is no country in the world that could  completely eliminate the leak of information and documents, but  stated that it would be more correct from a security point of view to  prevent this from happening.

However, adding that work is underway to minimize the potential for  leakage.  To recall, on August 7, an article appeared on the BBC  website stating that the publication received exclusive access to the  investigation documents of one of the most tragic events in the  modern history of Armenia: 10 people died in Yerevan during the March  1, 2008 protests. According to report, the investigation believes  that former Minister of Defense of Artsakh, Major General Samvel  Karapetyan (Oganovsky), who was being witnessed in the case, was  responsible for ordering troops to open fire on protesters. BBC  states that according to the documents the major-general's men were  temporarily stationed at the basement of the Presidential Palace.

According to the report the detectives are currently investigating a  possible role of Gagik Tsarukyan and Samvel Alexanyan, two  influential businessmen-politicians, who may have funded the Karabakh  troops in Yerevan. -