The Special Investigation Service of Armenia has instituted a criminal case based on the report prepared in relation to the article “Suren Papikyan Concealed His Conviction” published on hraparak.am on February 13, 2020 and the article “Suren Papikyan Hinted Who Organized Outflow of Confidential Information About Him” published on lragir.am on February 14, 2020, as reported the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The criminal case has been instituted in relation to the case of alleged crime of illegally gathering and keeping information deemed to be secret of a person’s personal life and not popular information and illegally disseminating that information through abuse of official powers, and preliminary investigation is underway.