Sanamyan had held the post since August 2025, according to Aravot’s report of his appointment, and Azatutyun placed the decree after last week’s crossing under the headline Dismissal in the NSS after the Azerbaijani serviceman’s infiltration into Syunik. No official reason, no successor and no comment from the service surfaced on Tuesday. The post he leaves is the one that oversees the border troops.
The security service said on 1 October that Azerbaijan’s authorities had notified it on 29 September that a serviceman had allegedly gone absent without leave and might have crossed into Armenia, and the two countries ran a search, by Armenpress. On 1 October a 39-year-old woman was shot in the leg in her home in Shaki, the Azerbaijani serviceman was identified as the shooter and detained, and on 2 October a court remanded him for two months. Her sister told Azatutyun that she lost three fingers of her left hand protecting her two children, aged 15 and 12 by Armenpress.
The post he leaves is the one that oversees the border troops.
Speaker Ruben Rubinyan told parliament on Tuesday, answering the opposition’s Marianna Ghahramanyan, that a crime had been committed by an Azerbaijani serviceman who illegally crossed the border, and that it was very good that the Azerbaijani side had informed Armenia as soon as it discovered he was missing. Before this case, he said, servicemen of each side had ended up on the other’s territory many times and been returned without trouble.
The serviceman, Nasimi Musayev as the investigative committee names him, was moved to a medical centre in Yerevan on Monday evening, Axar reported from Baku. The charges printed by Armenpress run from illegal border crossing and the smuggling of military goods to grievous bodily harm with a firearm, the offences of article 166, article 207, article 335, article 340 and article 469 of Armenia’s Criminal Code by the prosecutor general’s statement of 2 October, and Sanamyan’s post had no named successor on Tuesday.