YEREVAN. - Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has published a video of neutralizing a group suspected of a grave crime.  

According to the NSS press-service, they received an operative information, according to which the citizen of Armenia Arthur Valerik Vardanyan,1981, who resided in Spain since 1997 and has temporarily resided in Armenia since 2015, set up and managed a criminal association with the view of committing grave and particularly grave crimes, including in the association 19 citizens of Armenia, who were mostly unemployed.

For the aforementioned criminal aims, the criminal association illegally acquired a large quantity of weapons and ammunition that have been hidden in a house in Yerevan’s Nork district rented beforehand for that purpose.

On November 25, during searches conducted jointly with the police, different types of automatic rifles, pistols, grenade launchers, grenades, explosives and explosive devices, communications equipment, and other types of ammunition were found.

The leaders and participants of the criminal association have been detained.