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Armenia ex-military official charged with high treason on suspicion of spying for Azeri intelligence

armenpress.am10/1st/2020, 7:42
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Armenia ex-military official charged with high treason on suspicion of spying for Azeri intelligence

A former high ranking Armenian military official is charged with high treason on suspicion of spying for the Azerbaijani intelligence agencies, the National Security Service of Armenia said.

According to the NSS, an ongoing criminal investigation gathered sufficient evidence revealing “a case of state treason committed by a person who was formerly a high ranking military serviceman.”

The suspect, an Armenian citizen, “during many years of holding ranking positions in the Armenian military, gathered top secret state information with the goal of transferring it to a foreign organization, and provided other assistance for hostile activities damaging the territorial inviolability and foreign security of Armenia.”

The suspect is said to have been recruited by the Azeri intelligence in Georgian territory.

He was given assignments by the Azeri intelligence agencies to gather information or reveal the already known information about the external security of Artsakh and Armenia, their militarie...

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