Prosecutors in the ongoing trial of a former head of Turkish division at the Armenian foreign ministry Murad Bojolian, accused of spying for Turkey and high treason, produced on Monday a piece of blue paper as a material evidence of Bojolian’s collaboration with MIT, Turkish special services.
The blue piece of paper, which seems to be the “most weighty,” evidence was discovered in Bojolian’s apartment during a search after his detention. This paper contains, as the prosecutors say, the tasks Bojolian had received from MIT agents during his trips to Istanbul. The notes were in Turkish, made by Bojolian in pencil. The prosecutors read out their translation. It appeared that MIT was interested in a range of questions, concurring Armenia’s military cooperation with Greece, ammunition manufacturing plants , Russian military supplies, structure of CIS air defense forces and Armenia’s national security ministry, Iran-Armenia cooperation, deployment of military units in Karabagh and others.
Bojolian’s attorney hastened to announce that the blue piece of paper was “Bojolian’s self-slandering scheme”, which he had claimed to have invented to defend his family members from possible persecutions, and it should not be regarded as an evidence. In his pre-trial testimony Bojolian had admitted, however, to spying for Turkey but later refused to confirm it.
Prosecutors went on to say that Bojolian had dispatched to MIT agents information about corruption in the Armenian armed forces, about their annual budget and other information.
The prosecutor also said that Bojolian had been taking a paper to Turkey, which he had been asked to translate by members of Kurdistan committee in Yerevan. He said Kurds had asked Bojolian to translate it but not to take it to Istanbul to present as evidence that PKK had supporters stationed in Armenia.
Bojolian’s defense attorney however, claimed that all this information was collected by his client from Armenian newspapers. Bojolian himself argued that an issue of semi-official Yerevan-based Hayastani Hanrapetutyun placed an extensive story recently about Belarus army and it was not regarded as revelation of secret information.
Another dossier, which Bojolian had been taking to Turkey when he was arrested by national security officers, contained information about birthrate in Armenia, a marriage of a deputy defense minister with the daughter of a US-based Armenian millionaire, construction of North-South highway in Karabagh. Bojolian’s attorney claimed that all this was printed in Armenian newspapers. He also questioned prosecutors’ claims that all Turkish journalists with whom Bojolian had contacted, were MIT agents.
By Tatoul Hakobian
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