YEREVAN. - Employee of Hayastan All Armenian Fund’s press service Armen Ohanyan was released, he told Armenian News-NEWS.am. He was detained by Armenia’s National Security Service on Thursday morning in Yerevan.

According to him, he refused to answer the questions in the Service without the presence of his lawyer.

In response how he was detained, he said that first three, then another three employees came and detained him without showing a notification adding that no incidents were registered, employees were polite.

“I answered their questions at 04.00 p.m. with the presence of my lawyer,” Ohanyan said.

Ohanyan was in the investigation department on the case of fake diplomas on secondary education. His relative had a connection to it and the Service thought that Ohanyan may also know some information. His detainment has no political context, he added.