The head of Armenia's National Security Service (NSS), Gorik Hakobian, on Friday criticized Vartan Oskanian for refusing to give testimony in a controversial criminal investigation which the former foreign minister regards as politically motivated.
"An honest person must explain, yell, write, tell everyone that he is honest and that this or that is wrong," Hakobian told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am) after attending a weekly cabinet meeting in Yerevan. "But being silent like a [captured] guerilla fighter is unacceptable."
Oskanian, who is now a senior member of the opposition-leaning Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), has twice been summoned to the NSS this month for questioning in connection a money laundering case opened by the former Armenian branch of the Soviet KGB. He refused to answer NSS investigators' questions at the last interrogation on June 13.
Armenian News
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