My only instruction has been to arrive at the scene of the death of former director of the National Security Service Georgi Kutoyan as operatively as possible and protect the site of the incident. This is what Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said during a question-and-answer session with government officials in parliament today.

“When I was reported on the alarm about the death of Georgi Kutoyan, after which the police left for the scene of the incident, my only instruction was to arrive at the scene of the incident as operatively as possible and protect the site. The investigation will show the extent to which the scene of the incident was as the police recorded,” Pashinyan stated.

The Prime Minister said the Investigative Committee’s official version is suicide which leads to very delicate situations (“the action that led to death is suicide”).

On January 17, former director of the National Security Service of Armenia Georgi Kutoyan was found dead in a Yerevan apartment, and with a gunshot wound.

A criminal case has been instituted under the elements of inciting suicide.