Armenia's former interior minister Vano Siradeghyan passed away a few months ago, Hraparak paper reports, citing ex-minister’s friend.

A famous intellectual, who was once friends with Siradeghyan, said the ex-minister died abroad of serious illness, the fact kept in secret for some reasons. The intellectual cites Siradeghyan family’s silence about the Facebook signature campaign on his return to prove his point, the paper says.

However, if the information proves to be rumors, the ex-minister himself will soon react to it, Hraparak reports.