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Araks Mamulyan

Police Raid Offices of Yerevan.Today News Website; Allege Link to Robert Kocharyan

Yerevan police today raided the editorial offices of Yerevan.Today, confiscating the computer and several computer discs of the news website’s editor Sevak Hakobyan.

After the raid, Hakobyan told reporters that the reason for the police search was because the website was the first to publish a secretly taped telephone conversation between National Security Service Chief Artur Vanetsyan and Special Investigative Service Chief Sasun Khachatryan.

In the phone conversation, published on September 11, Vanetsyan and Khachatryan are heard discussing the detention of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and the ongoing investigation of the events of March 1, 2008.

Police allege that the website, according to a Google search, published the conversation two days before other outlets did so

The implication is that the website has close links to Robert Kocharyan and colluded with Armenia’s second president to beat other websites to the punch.

Kocharyan has pointed to the tape to bolster his claim that the Pashinyan government has launched a political vendetta against him.

Hakobyan refuted the allegation, stating that the website published the conversation at the same time as other websites and that it has no links to Kocharyan.  

Kocharyan has refuted rumors that he has anything to do with the taped phone conversation.

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