Whom Did Hovik Aghazaryan Provide Information to?

I have kept a considerable silence, but I believe it is time to speak about this. This was written by Vahagn Aleksanyan, a member of the ‘Civil Contract’ faction, on his Facebook page.

“Hovik Aghazaryan, who is now trying to assume the role of a persecuted or victimized person for the sake of freedom and dissent, has long served as an informant for the ‘Hraparak’ newspaper, providing information from the faction’s closed meetings and discussions with the Prime Minister. This has been confirmed by Aghazaryan himself and almost directly corroborated by the media outlet in question. Just consider the scathing criticism printed in ‘Hraparak’ the day after Aghazaryan was dismissed for removing a person like Aghazaryan from the party. I understand this, of course. No media outlet would want to lose access to information leaking from the ruling faction. I can’t even blame the media for taking advantage of such leaks. By the way, I should also note that when I learned that Aghazaryan was the informant for ‘Hraparak’, I finally understood why the newspaper's accounts of the faction's meetings often bordered on the fantastic.

Nevertheless, let me say that leaking information from within one’s own team to a media outlet of the clearly opposing political camp, crafting various internal intrigues through this route, and not even sparing sensitive information that arose during closed discussions with the Prime Minister, I believe can only be characterized in one way, which I won’t disclose in this post. Aghazaryan's selective commentary on certain chats to complete his ‘victim’ status is simply ridiculous. Those chats personally interest me very little, although I must note that Aghazaryan is exceedingly selective in his actions regarding the publication of these chats. As for Hakob Aslanyan, it turns out that what applies to Hovik Aghazaryan also applies to him, as the latter chose the leak of information from the faction over that within the faction,” Aleksanyan wrote.

Recall that on November 22, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated during a broadcast on Public Television that he had asked MPs Narek Zeynalanyan and Hovik Aghazaryan to resign from their mandates. MP Narek Zeynalanyan resigned from his mandate on November 19. Aghazaryan announced that he would not resign. On December 3, ‘Civil Contract’ expelled him from the party, and on December 4, during a session of the National Assembly, Aghazaryan declared that he was also leaving the ‘Civil Contract’ faction. Numerous materials and messages from Aghazaryan's phone, which are under investigation in a criminal case, reportedly reached the Prime Minister, even though law enforcement assured that they would only familiarize themselves with materials related to the case. Aghazaryan is accused of leaking confidential information within the ‘Civil Contract’. The Prosecutor's Office forwarded the publication of Aghazaryan's organization of leaks containing state secrets to the Anti-Corruption Committee. The MP's lawyer has also filed a request with the Prosecutor's Office to initiate legal proceedings to understand how personal information from the anti-corruption committee ended up in the hands of others.