On June 5, 2026, within the framework of the criminal proceedings initiated regarding the events that took place in Yerevan on March 1–2, 2008, the prosecutor, acting on his own initiative, initiated public criminal prosecution against G.H., who served as Director of the National Security Service under the Government of the RA from November 8, 2004 to February 11, 2016, for committing official forgery and for organizing the commission of official forgery by subordinate employees.

Specifically, evidence obtained during the criminal proceedings indicates that on March 1, 2008, G.H., then serving as Director of the National Security Service, in order to justify acts of violence committed by police units against demonstrators in Freedom Square and to create false grounds for the use of physical force and special means by the Police of the RA despite the apparent absence of the legal prerequisites prescribed by the RA Law on Police, caused a false official document to be drafted with retroactive dating of February 28, 2008. With the assistance of subordinate employees, he prepared and secretly sent the document to H.H., then Chief of Police of the RA. The document falsely stated that: “According to operational information received by the National Security Service, following the presidential elections of the Republic of Armenia, beginning on February 20, unauthorized rallies and marches organized by Levon Ter-Petrosyan and his supporters in Yerevan’s Freedom Square are aimed at destabilizing the situation in the city. Provocative statements and calls are regularly made during the rallies. Information has also been received that firearms, explosives, metal rods and batons will be distributed among demonstrators and may be used during possible provocative and unlawful actions instigated by them.”

Subsequently, in order to conceal the falsity of the above-mentioned document, G.H. allegedly induced T.B., who in March 2008 served as Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Counterterrorism of the NSS, to organize and supervise the preparation and submission of fabricated operational reports.

As a result, operational reports falsely dated February 23, February 24 and February 28, 2008, were prepared and entered into official circulation. These fabricated reports were purportedly used as the basis for G.H.’s false letter dated February 28, 2008.

The prosecutor also initiated public criminal prosecution against T.B., who in 2008 served as Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Counterterrorism of the NSS, under part 1 of Article 38-314 of the Criminal Code adopted on April 18, 2003, for organizing the insertion of knowingly false information into official documents by an official acting out of personal or group interests; N.M., who served as Secretary of the 4th Department of the Directorate; A.G., who served as Head of the Constitutional Order Protection Divisio; and A.B., who served as Deputy Head of the same Division, for acts falling under part 1 of Article 314 of the Criminal Code (official forgery).