YEREVAN. – One of the two persons that are arrested along with Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic/NKR) former Defense Minister and Defense Army Commander Samvel Babayan, and along the lines of the case into the Igla missile system, is his military friend.

Babayan’s attorney Avetis Kalashyan on Tuesday told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am, but he did not give any names.

Kalashyan added that he still is uninformed about the person whom Georgian law enforcement detained Monday, and on suspicion of transferring the aforementioned missile system to Armenia.

Also, the attorney noted that he disagrees with the Office of the Prosecutor General of Armenia statement, according to which during interrogation Babayan had admitted his involvement in the smuggling of the said weapon system and provided respective information.

In his words, Samvel Babayan and the two other arrestees have not yet faced one another, since no one has testified against Babayan.

In addition, the attorney argued that his client does not have sufficient grounds to consider his arrest as a political decision.

Criminal charges were brought against Samvel Babayan. On March 24, a capital city Yerevan court ruled he be placed under arrest for two months. Babayan, however, does not accept the charges against him.

He was detained on March 22, about which the National Security Service of Armenia had issued a statement noting that Samvel Babayan was detained within the framework of the criminal case into the illegal transferring of Igla missile system to Armenia.