According to Pastinfo’s information, officers from the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia on Wednesday paid a visit to Administrative Court Judge Mher Petrosyan, under whose proceedings the lawsuit by the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces—Onik Gasparyan—is being examined, and they tried to enter the judge's office.

Moreover, the visit took place before the court examined the motion of Gasparyan's lawyers to apply a means of securing the lawsuit.

The judge immediately informed the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) about the visit of the NSS officers.

Pastinfo managed to contact Judge Mher Petrosyan, who confirmed this information, noting that the NSS officers had indeed visited the court and wanted to meet with him, which he refused.

"Yes, there was such a visit, I did not meet with them at all, I refused to meet, proposing to organize the meeting, if necessary, only through the SJC, and I immediately informed the SJC," the judge said, adding that the visit of the NSS officers’ visit had taken place after he had already made the decision to accept the lawsuit in a well-known case and it was inputted in the program of the judicial system.

At the same time, he confirmed the information that the visit took place before the decision on applying the security measure of the lawsuit.

As for the SJC's response to this incident, Judge Petrosyan said that he was quite grateful to the SJC in this connection. He noted that, first, before this incident, when such rumors were already circulated in the morning, they called him, inquired, and after that they informed that all the SJC members were aware and, if necessary, would exercise their powers by using the levers defined by the relevant law. "But it did not reach that," the judge added.

Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Onik Gasparyan, has filed three lawsuits with the Administrative Court, challenging the legality of the decision to dismiss him from the aforesaid post. The lawsuits were assigned to Administrative Court Judge Mher Petrosyan, who accepted one of the lawsuits and granted the motion to apply the means of securing the lawsuit filed within its framework.