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Armenian law enforces are raiding the office of Yerevan.Today news agency regarding the criminal investigation into the wiretapping scandal involving Director of National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsyan and Head of the Special Investigative Service (SIS) Sasun Khachatryan.

The raids, launched jointly by police officers and the Investigative Committee, come after the news agency allegedly published the wiretapped telephone conversation earlier than the other media outlets, deleting it afterwards, the police told Panorama.am.       

“The searches are being carried out as part of the criminal case into breaching the confidentiality, wiretapping and leaking the telephone conversation between the NSS and SIS chiefs,” spokesperson for the investigative committee Naira Harutyunyan told Panorama.am.

In an official statement released on Monday, the committee says its investigators are carrying out search operations in a number of addresses as part of the probe.

“Other details of the criminal case are not subject to public disclosure,” the committee said.

The scandalous recording of the wiretapped telephone conversation between the security and investigation chefs was leaked to the public last Tuesday. In the recording, the two high-level officials informally discuss the ongoing criminal investigation into the March 2008 post-election crackdown in Yerevan.