In response to an inquiry from Armenian News-NEWS.am, the National Security Service of Armenia reported that the study on the destruction of documents that was launched in 2018 is still in progress. In addition to other questions regarding the destruction of documents, Armenian News-NEWS.am also asked if, during the official examination, there were such circumstances that serve as a ground to institute a criminal case in regard to the case, and in response, the National Security Service said it could answer those questions only after the study was over.

During his regular press conference in May 2019, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made a sensational statement, stating that documents of the National Security Service had been destructed before the former government resigned. Later, in the National Assembly, Pashinyan went into detail and said those destructed documents concerned a wide scope of people and events. In May of this year, Pashinyan declared that most of those documents have already been recovered. However, to this day, it is still not clear what those documents were about, what information they could have contained and what the reason for destructing them was.