RA Investigative Committee  discloses reasons for  detention of two  officers, including Colonel Maloyan

ArmInfo. The Investigative Committee (IC) of Armenia has disclosed the reasons for the detention of Colonel Edik Maloyan, a veteran of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and holder of the Order of the Combat Cross, 1st Class.

The agency's press service told ArmInfo that the colonel was detained  in connection with a criminal case initiated for the publication of  information containing state secrets. It is noted that two officers  have been detained in connection with the case. "During the  preliminary investigation of the criminal case, the General  Department for the Investigation of Crimes against the State,  Fundamentals of the Constitutional System, and Public Security of the  Investigative Committee of Armenia has obtained factual information  indicating that E. M., as the commander of the N-th military unit of  the Ministry of Defense (MoD) of Armenia with the rank of colonel,  without the right to access information constituting a state secret,  persuaded an officer of the same military unit, R. J., to disclose  this information," the Investigative Committee reported. The  department added that E. M. then made public this information, which  contained a state secret and was obtained illegally. In this regard,  the agency noted, a public criminal prosecution has been initiated  against Maloyan under Part 1 of Article 426 of the Criminal Code of  Armenia (disclosure of information containing a state secret by a  person who has illegally obtained it) and Part 1 of Articles 46-427  (incitement to disclose information containing a state secret), while  R.D. is charged under Part 1 of Article 427 (disclosure of  information containing a state secret).

"During the preliminary investigation, E.M. and R.D. were detained,  and a petition has been submitted to the court to order pretrial  detention as a preventive measure against them. The preliminary  investigation is ongoing," the Investigative Committee of Armenia  concluded.

Earlier, it was reported that Maloyan's home had been searched in the  morning, after which he was detained. Narek Karapetyan, a member of  the political council of the "Strong Armenia" bloc, wrote that the  colonel was detained for wanting to live in a Strong Armenia. He  recalled that Maloyan is the soldier who reclaimed the positions of  Abajyan and Urfanyan (Artsakh heroes who died during the four-day  April War of 2016 - ed.). Furthermore, it was he who, after the 2020  war, during border demarcation, when an Azerbaijani commander showed  disrespect to an Armenian soldier and beat him in public, was  dismissed from the army by the Armenian command.