Armenia’s former security chief Artur Vanetsyan questioned by investigators

Emil Lazarian 2020
Panorama, Armenia
Jan 31 2020

Former Director of Armenia’s National Security Service, Major-General Artur Vanetsyan was questioned at the Investigative Committee on Thursday, its spokesperson Nairia Harutyunyan confirmed to Panorama.am.

According to her, Vanetsyan, who also headed the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA), was questioned as a witness as part of the criminal investigations into alleged abuses in the FFA and the 2018 wiretapping case involving him and Special Investigative Service Head Sasun Khachatryan.

“Vanetsyan’s mobile phone has been examined as part of the wiretapping case,” she said, refusing to elaborate on the results.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS