The National Security Service (NSS) has detained Vachagan Ghazaryan, the former first deputy chief of the state protection service.
Aram Danielyan, mayor of Hrazdan, a town 45 kilometres northeast of the capital Yerevan, has resigned.
The Special Investigative Service has issued an arrest warrant for Nazik Amiryan, the wife of Member of Parliament Manvel Grigoryan – the influential former general who is currently remanded in custody pending trial for grand theft and illegal possession of firearms.
The session of the Security Council was held led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
The Special Investigative Service has launched criminal proceedings over former Mayor of Ejmiatsin Karen Grigoryan, the son of MP Manvel Grigoryan, the former general who is accused of misappropriations, theft and illegal possession of firearms, pending trial.
