Samvel Babayan 'in good mood'
Nagorno-Karabakh’s former top military commander Samvel Babayan is ‘in a good mood,’ his lawyer Avetis Kalashyan said on Friday. The lawyer today visited Babayan, who is kept in an isolation ward of the National Security Service. The investigative body is to file a petition within 72 hours according to which Babayan will be either arrested or released. Samvel Babayan, a former top military commander of the Artsakh Republic, was arrested on March 22 on charges of attempting to smuggle a missile launcher into Armenia. According to a statement of the Armenian National Security Service, Bababyan and two other individuals attempted to smuggle an Igla shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile. The NSS said the other two persons purchased and transported the missile system on the orders of Babayan.
