Former head of the General Staff of Armenia, Ex-head of military control service under the Ministry of Defense, Colonel General Movses Akopyan is brought as accused of criminal case on the fact of the disclosure of state secrecy. The details of the case reports the National Security Service of Armenia, the investigative department of which and was engaged in the investigation, they write Armenian media.
In the message, the name of Akopyana is not indicated, it is said about the disclosure of Gostayna from the “ex-head of the military control service during a public interview on November 19, 2020.”
This is a resonant press conference of Akopian, which he gave 10 days after the end of the war in Karabakh and voiced a number of very serious accusations against the country’s top management. In particular, the general accused the authorities in revising the previously approved plans for procurement of arms and military equipment, the procurement of unsuitable air-friendly funds, the misuse of money, cessation of mobilization on the third day of war. In addition, he also spoke about the meaninglessness of the procurement of multipurpose fighters Su-30cm.
After these statements in a special investigative service, a case was opened under part 2 of Article 308 (abuse of official authority, which caused the serious consequences) of the Criminal Code to the negligence. And the Ministry of Defense called the statements of Akopyan false and threatening state security. The department also refuted the arguments of the former Head of the General Staff.