Former Security Chief’s Death ‘Still Investigated’ Հունվար 21, 2021 Կիսվել Տարածել Տպել Investigators believe that Georgi Kutoyan, a former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) found dead one year ago, committed suicide, a senior law-enforcement official said on Thursday. “It has been corroborated, through not only investigative actions but also forensic tests, that it was a suicide,” Artur Melikian, the deputy head of the Investigative Committee, told reporters. Nevertheless, Melikian said, a criminal investigation into his death is continuing. The 38-year-old Kutoyan, who ran the NSS during the final years of former President Serzh Sarkisian’s rule, was found shot to death on January 17, 2020 at a Yerevan apartment belonging to the family. The Investigative Committee opened at the time a criminal case under an article of the Armenian Criminal Code dealing with suicides “induced” by others.