YEREVAN. – Armenian National Security Service arrested Karen Mehrabyan, 31, resident of Yerevan on Armenian-Georgian “Bavra” border on Saturday. He is suspected in having contact with Azerbaijani secret service.

Mehrabyan has been in the view of Security Service for a long time. All that time Security Service in various ways, including video surveillance, collected facts on how he gathered documents on Karabakh military potential, preserved them and transferred to Azerbaijani secret service, press service of Armenian Security Service informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Mehrabyan tried to involve people from Nagorno-Karabakh and servicemen of Armenian MOD in his secret data collecting process, which interested Azerbaijani secret services.

Security Service has hard facts on how Mehrabyan got involved in illegal activity of Azerbaijani secret service in Turkey.

Criminal case is instigated on high treason, according to article 299, part 1 of Armenian Criminal Code. Armenian Security Service runs the investigation.