As a result of urgent operational intelligence actions, officers of the National Security Service of Armenia found out that the alarm about a terrorist act in building #3 of the Government of the Republic of Armenia was a false alarm, reports the press center of the National Security Service of Armenia.

The alarm was sounded by a person being kept under custody at Nubarashen Penitentiary Institution of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia and charged with robbery, embezzlement and falsification of documents. Through a surprise search conducted jointly with employees of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia, officers of the National Security Service found a wifi device, a charger and 5 mobile phones in the cell of a detainee, as well as the mobile phone card through which the false alarm had been sounded.

A report is being prepared in relation to a false alarm about a terrorist act.