Artur Vanetsyan

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Armenia

Arrests follow ‘assassination plot’ against Pashinyan

by OC Media

•2 min read

Several prominent political and military figures have been arrested and accused of attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) issued a statement on the alleged plot on Saturday evening. Those arrested include former NSS head and head of the Motherland Party Artur Vanetsyan, former deputy speaker of Armenia’s parliament Republican Party member Vahram Baghdasaryan, Commander of the Sisian Detachment and war veteran Colonel Ashot Minasyan,

Armenia

Former Armenian Security Service head found dead in apparent suicide

by OC Media

•4 min read

The former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), Georgi Kutoyan, 38, has been found dead in his flat in Yerevan in an apparent suicide. Naira Harutyunyan, spokesperson for the Investigative Committee of Armenia, announced the news on Friday in a post on Facebook. Later that evening, Artur Melikyan, the head of the Committee’s Department of Particularly Important Cases, told reporters near Kutoyan’s flat that a criminal investigation had been launched into the possibility tha

Armenia

Former Armenian Security chief accused of conducting ‘smear campaign’ against PM’s family

by OC Media

•5 min read

The former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsyan has come under fire over allegations he coordinated a smear campaign against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s family. The allegations were published on Sunday on the website of the Armenian Times. Pashinyan’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, serves as the paper’s editor-in-chief. The paper claimed to have obtained evidence that Vanetsyan worked with several media outlets, including Politik, widely considered to be hostile t

Armen Minasyan

Mutual recriminations follow resignation of Armenia’s security chief

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•3 min read

Accusations of incompetence and corruption have been exchanged between Armenia’s Prime Minister and the former head of the National Security Service, following the latter’s resignation in mid-September. Artur Vanetsyan, the Head of the Armenian National Security Service (NSS), who served in the post for roughly a year and three months and was a key figure in Nikol Pashinyan’s anti-corruption drive, resigned on 16 September. That same day, he also published a resignation statement on Face

Armenia

Armenian security service pressured judge according to wiretapped phone calls

by OC Media

•4 min read

In wiretapped phone conversations between two top security chiefs, the head of Armenia’s National Security Service, Sasun Khachatryan claimed to have ordered a judge to detain former president Robert Kocharyan. In conversations with the head of the Special Investigative Service leaked online, the two also discuss Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ‘ordering the arrest’ of former Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Khachaturov. The phone conversations between Artur Vanetsyan, Director of the National S