Former director of the National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan’s lawsuit against Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and his spokesperson Mane Gevorgyan has been inscribed to Lilit Sargsyan, judge of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan, as reported DataLex Judicial Information System.

Vanetsyan demands that the court obliges the Prime Minister and his spokesperson to publicly refute actual information deemed to be slander, delete the information, post the text of refutation, as well as compensate the damage caused to honor and dignity.

Mane Gevorgyan had posted the following on her Facebook page:

“Former director of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan obtained Minasyan’s share in the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine through, for instance, prima facie abuse of official powers and, once again, with the help of fake shareholders, and the company belonging to Vanetsyan’s father has also become the large transporter of cargo to the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine.”