YEREVAN. - Four Turkey-based Armenians – Rafik Papoyan, Karine Ghumashyan, Sergey Papoyan and Diana Goroyan – are charged with being involved in the Azerbaijani intelligence services, Armenia’s judicial information system reports.

According to the indictment, Rafik Papoyan was recruited in the service by an Azerbaijani intelligence service worker named Seyran and later carried out the intelligence tasks.

Upon the instruction of his father Rafik Papoyan, Sergey Papoyan met with an intelligence officer in Tbilisi and was recruited by the latter providing information which he possessed during his service as a spy in Karabakh’s Martuni region.  Paying $750, the aforementioned Seyran instructed Papoyan to get recruited as a contract soldier in Mataghis military unit and provide information about that unit via the Internet.

Karine Ghumashyan was recruited by another intelligence worker, a man who called himself Arman. Receiving remuneration in the amount of $1500, she was instructed not to call the man who called himself Arman and not to tell anyone about that acquaintance, observing the rules of confidentiality.

Diana Goroyan is charged with the failure to inform the law enforcement authorities on the planned high treason upon learning by phone from Karine Ghumushyan - her aunt’s daughter - on the fact that the latter had got acquainted with an Azerbaijani intelligence officer Arman during her stay in Turkey, who gave her money and presents.  

Rafik Papoyan, Karine Ghumashyan and Sergey Papoyan are charged under Article 299 (1), and Diana Goroyan under Article 335 (1) of the Armenian Criminal Code.

The case is investigated in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork Marash District.