Ruben Karleni Vardanyan, born in 1968, who illegally arrived in the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan and worked as the so-called "state minister of the republic of Nagorno-Karabakh", has been today detained while moving from Azerbaijan to Armenia by servicemen of the Azerbaijan`s State Border Service at the Lachin state border checkpoint.

Ruben Vardanyan was taken to Baku accompanied by State Border Service`s special forces.

The detainee was handed over to the relevant state authorities.