Armenia’s National Security Service detains two more people on suspicion of being part of armed group
14.01.2016,
15:35
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said today it has detained Garnik Margaryan, head of a minor party called "Homeland and Honor’ and Vladimir Arakelyan, the main shareholder of a sports shoe factory in the town of Yeghvard, on suspicion of being part of a well-organized group that plotted to kill senior Armenian officials and carry out other terrorist attacks in the country.
YEREVAN, January 14. /ARKA/. Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said today it has detained Garnik Margaryan, head of a minor party called "Homeland and Honor’ and Vladimir Arakelyan, the main shareholder of a sports shoe factory in the town of Yeghvard, on suspicion of being part of a well-organized group that plotted to kill senior Armenian officials and carry out other terrorist attacks in the country.
The criminal group was said to have been set up by Arthur Vardanyan, a 34-year-old Armenian national who lived in Spain from 1997 until his return to Armenia in April last year. Margaryan and Arakelyan are suspected of illegal purchase, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons by a group of persons by prior agreement.
More than a dozen members of the group had been arrested late last year during a raid on a privately-owned house rented by the group in Yerevan’s Nork-Marash district. The NSS and the police said they had found a weapons cache with Kalashnikov rifles, hand grenades, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers and a large amount of explosive materials. -0-
The criminal group was said to have been set up by Arthur Vardanyan, a 34-year-old Armenian national who lived in Spain from 1997 until his return to Armenia in April last year. Margaryan and Arakelyan are suspected of illegal purchase, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons by a group of persons by prior agreement.
More than a dozen members of the group had been arrested late last year during a raid on a privately-owned house rented by the group in Yerevan’s Nork-Marash district. The NSS and the police said they had found a weapons cache with Kalashnikov rifles, hand grenades, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers and a large amount of explosive materials. -0-
