Another Armenian officer arrested for spying for Azerbaijan

Baku/15.10.22/Turan: On October 15, the National Security Service of Armenia announced the arrest of an officer of the Armenian Armed Forces for spying " for foreign intelligence."

The Department of Military Counterintelligence of the National Security Service established that the commander of a platoon of one of the military units of the Armenian Armed Forces,  met through the Odnoklassniki social network with an employee of foreign intelligence services and was recruited.

From January to June 2022, for money, he transferred documents and information “on combat positions, communication routes, battalion command and observation posts, distances between positions, their equipment, etc., through the social network to foreign intelligence, thereby committing treason”. The officer was arrested and confessed.

The message does not name the foreign country that this officer was spying  for. However, it is not difficult to guess that only Azerbaijan can be interested in data on positions at the front.

This is already the 43rd Armenian accused of spying for Azerbaijan. Most of those arrested on these charges are servicemen, some of whom are unit commanders. Some of the accused were recruited after the end of the Second Karabakh War. --02B--