Criminal case initiated on wiretapping of telephone conversation  between the heads of NSS and SIS 

ArmInfo.A criminal case was opened in the Department for Supervision over the Investigation of Especially Important Cases of the RA Prosecutor General's Office  related to wiretap of a telephone conversation between the Director  of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan and  the Chairman of the Special Investigation Service (SIS) of Armenia  Sasun Khachatryan.

As the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office informs, the  case was opened on the grounds of part 1 of Art. 146 (unlawful  violation of the secrecy of correspondence, telephone conversations,  postal, telegraph or other communications of citizens) and clause 4,  part 3 of  Art. 254 (unauthorized copying of information stored in a  computer, computer system, network or machine media, or unlawful  acquisition of it in another way, or interception of information  transmitted using computer communication tools committed for the  purpose of obtaining information of special value) of the RA Criminal  Code . The preliminary investigation into the criminal case was  entrusted to the Investigative Committee.

To recall, yesterday an audio recording was spread on the Internet of  the telephone conversation, during which the interlocutors discuss  the criminal case on the events of 1 March 2008. A few hours later  the Director of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan  confirmed the authenticity of the audio record.  In the evening of  the same day, speaking to the voters of the Davidashen community, RA  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the wiretapping of the  heads of the special services is a conspiracy, a crime against the  Armenian statehood. "I instructed the National Security and Police  Service to find the conspirators in the shortest possible time,  subjecting them to accountability," he said.