Narek Karapetyan said that in the 1990s, nearly all citizens born in the 1960s and 1970s who received foreign passports in Russia, particularly in Kaluga, had “ИТС ФСБ” listed in the database field referring to their workplace information.
“Examples are attached, we can provide hundreds of them,” Karapetyan wrote on his Facebook page, commenting on a document published by The Insider.
“Any attempt to defame an honest person will backfire on those spreading the slander,” he added.
A few days earlier, Russian outlet The Insider published a lengthy investigation which, among other claims, stated: “In 1999, when Karapetyan was obtaining a foreign passport in Kaluga, leaked offline databases indicated that the ‘place of work’ field in his passport file contained an Interior Ministry notation: ‘FSB Information Center.’”
