YEREVAN. – Zhoghovurd newspaper of the Republic of Armenia (RA) writes: According to Zhoghovurd daily’s information, officials from the RA Ministry of Defense were summoned to the NSS [(National Security Service)] and questioned in the criminal case related to Davit Galstyan: Patron Davo.

Zhoghovurd daily, nonetheless, managed to find out from its sources that the NSS also summoned the head of the Armament Department of the RA Armed Forces, Major General Poghos Poghosyan, for questioning, as he was a member of the commission for the purchase of weapons.

Let us remind that Davit Galstyan, who supplies weapons to Armenia and is better known by the nickname Patron Davo, was an adviser to former Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan.

His Mosston Engineering company, according to the NSS, signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense, pledging to supply the army with corresponding caliber shells of 1983-86 production artillery in 2018, but supplied another type of 1977 Czech-made artillery shells, which were considerably inferior in tactical features, and if used, it was impossible to fulfill combat tasks.