Two Armenians convicted of espionage in favor of Azerbaijan

On Wednesday, a court in Yerevan acquitted one of the three defendants accused of collaboration with the intelligence agencies of Azerbaijan. Two others were found guilty. According to news.am, Rafik Papoyan and Karine Gumashyan were found guilty of treason, and are  sentenced to 14 and 12 years in prison. The son of Rafik Papoyan, Sergei Papoyan, was  found not guilty and released.

According to the investigation, Rafik Papoyan was recruited in  Turkey by  representative of the special services of Azerbaijan. Papoyan choose among arrivals to Turkey from Armenia persons recruited for espionage. He also is attracted his  son Sergei, who at the insistence of his father, met in Tbilisi with the special services of Azerbaijan representative, who introduced himself Seyran, and passed himinformed him of military information, as  he served as a scout in Martuni (Khojavend) region of Karabakh. For this he received $ 750, and got a job as a contract to get into one of the military units in Matagis (Karabakh's Martakert region.)

Karine Gumashyan was recruited in 2013, by an employee of the Azerbaijani special services,  who introduced himself as Armand. After receiving $1,500 US dollars, she was given the task to transmit information by secrecy. What kind of information is not reported. It should be noted that during the trial, the defendants did not plead guilty. -02D-