RETIRED ARMENIAN POLICE COLONEL SUSPECTED OF SPYING FOR AZERBAIJAN ARRESTED
Wednesday 5 February 2014 11:56
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Former Armenian police employee, Colonel Khachik
Marirosyan (born in 1953) was arrested by the Armenian National
Security Service on January 31.
“The NSC has conclusive evidence proving that upon his own initiative
Khachik Martirosyan applied to the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Georgia
in August 2013, and contacted the special Azerbaijani services working
under the cover of the embassy offering his services for money.
Khachik Martirosyan was instructed to retrieve military-related
information and took proper steps to get the required info. Khachik
Martirosyan was intending to transfer the information to Azerbaijanis
but the NSC prevented it'”, NSC statement reads.
Criminal charges were filed; preliminary investigation is conducted.
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