YEREVAN. – Zhoghovurd newspaper of the Republic of Armenia (RA) writes: Zhoghovurd daily has learned that a noteworthy situation has arisen at the Department of Investigation of Especially Important Cases of the General Military Investigation Department of the RA Investigative Committee. In particular, the investigative body actively summons officials of the Armed Forces for questioning.

We were informed that the former Chief of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, Onik Gasparyan, and the former Commander of the [Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)] Defense Army, Jalal Harutyunyan, as well as other former officials of the General Staff of the Armed Forces have been summoned for questioning these days.

Moreover, according to the information we received, the investigative body will also transfer former Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan from Yerevan-Kentron penitentiary to the military investigative—again for interrogation. According to the information we received, the investigative body will interrogate him in the framework of criminal cases initiated as a result of the [44-day Artsakh] war [in the fall of 2020].

By the way, according to the exclusive information of Zhoghovurd daily, Jalal Harutyunyan has already been summoned to the investigative body for questioning about 20 times, and Onik Gasparyan has been summoned for questioning about 10 times.

Noteworthy disclosures and arrests are expected in the near future.