The Investigative Committee of Armenia has taken actions to find out a number of circumstances within the framework of the investigation of the criminal case against chairman Garnik Isagulyan of the opposition National Security party, the Committee informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Accordingly, evidence has been obtained that during a press conference on September 20, Isagulyan, knowing that the information he was providing was false, reported a crime that had not been committed.

In particular, during the interview, Isagulyan said that the Armenian ambassador to Ukraine was allegedly studied and recruited by the Turkish and Azerbaijani special services, and that this diplomat is collaborating with the aforementioned services and the representatives of those nations since 2008, about which Isagulyan himself has no doubts.

According to his statement, the Armenian ambassador to Ukraine held talks with the Azerbaijani ambassador to Ukraine, and as a result, it was decided that the Armenian prime minister shall meet—in Batumi, Georgia—with the representatives of the Turkish president to ask for money from the latter, as the money in the state budget of Armenia has run out and they cannot pay pensions; thus, unjustly accusing the Armenian diplomat of committing a serious crime

Isagulyan has been included as a defendant in the abovementioned crime.

The same day a decision was made to detain him.

Garnik Isagulyan is already accused—in the criminal case under consideration by the Yerevan court—of making false statements about the prime minister of Armenia, a number of former and current officials and public figures, the current chairman of the Investigative Committee, the former secretary of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Security Council, as well as of making public calls for using violence against the Prime Minister of Armenia.