Armenia`s NSS disclosed a former high-ranking military man who spied  for Azerbaijan

ArmInfo. As a result of operational and investigative measures, the employees of the National Security Service of Armenia disclosed a case of high treason on the  part of a former high-ranking military man.

As reported by the press service of the National Security Service of  the Republic of Armenia, within the framework of the initiated  criminal case, factual data were obtained that a citizen of the  Republic of Armenia serving in the Armed Forces of the Republic of  Armenia, who, by the relevant order of the Minister of Defense, held  responsible positions in different years, collected and transmitted  information containing state secrets to representatives of a foreign  organization, provided other assistance for the implementation of  hostile actions, to the detriment of the territorial integrity and  external security of the Republic.

The RA NSS also reported that the person involved in the criminal  case, being on the territory of Georgia, was noticed by the  Azerbaijani special services operating in this country, was recruited  by them and received specific instructions on the transfer of  information about the RA Armed Forces, including in terms of  personnel weapons, ammunition, the number and types of military  equipment, etc., that is, the implementation of espionage to the  detriment of the Republic of Armenia.

"After that, the abovementioned person, having been in the ranks of  the RA Armed Forces for many years, having official permission to  access classified information, began collecting such information,  bearing responsibility for their leakage, and realizing that in the  event of leakage of this information, this would damage the country's  security. Using connections with the officers of Artsakh and the RA  Armed Forces, he regularly met with the latter, was interested in  specific actions carried out by the units, etc., collected data, and  then regularly traveled from the Republic of Armenia to the Republic  of Georgia. By scouts both in the Azerbaijani embassy and outside it,  he transferred the collected information to them in parts, followed  the instructions of the enemy special services to the detriment of  the security of the Republic of Armenia, "the report of the National  Security Service of the Republic of Armenia says.  The above person  was charged on the basis of Part 1 of Art. 299 of the RA Criminal  Code, arrest was chosen as a measure of restraint. "It should be  noted that as a result of urgent investigative actions taken during  the preliminary investigation of the criminal case, including the  conduct of more than a dozen searches, a large number of ammunition,  grenades, explosives, cartridges, documents containing state secrets,  documents about weapons, including tanks, batteries, amplifiers,  primarily vulnerable objects, etc., some of which are in unique,  original copies were found in the apartment or back rooms of the  accused. At the same time, during a search at the place of residence  of the accused, radio equipment for reconnaissance, communications  and books with phone numbers for communication with the special  services of Azerbaijan were found, "the RA NSS noted.