Wednesday, July 11 2018 20:51

ArmInfo. The court granted the  motion for the arrest of Hayk Sargsyan, the nephew of the former  president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, Investigative Committee of  Armenia stated on its Facebook page.

Yesterday, the investigative body submitted a motion to the court for  Sargsyan's arrest and today the court granted the motion.

To note Hayk Sargsyan is suspected of assassination attempt and  illegal acquisition and carrying of weapons. Earlier a written  undertaking not to leave the country was used against him as a  measure of restraint.

As ArmInfo informed earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office of  Armenia has reopened the criminal case on an incident occurred in  spring 2007. According to  the case materials, on April 1, 2007, in  Yerevan, at the crossroad of  Tumanyan-Nalbandyan streets, a resident  of Yerevan D. Simonyan (born  in 1984), received a gunshot wound and  was taken to hospital. On the  same day, A. Ghevondyan appeared in  the police, introduced the Sig  Sauer pistol and 6 patrons, stating  that he had found the pistol near  the kindergarten near their house  and, because of careless handling  of the weapon, fired, causing  physical injuries to his friend D.  Simonyan.  As a result, a  criminal case was opened under Article 120  of the RA Criminal Code.   Based on the facts obtained by the  preliminary investigation, it was  revealed that D. Simonyan was injured by negligence of A. Ghevondyan.  And considering that D.  Simonyan reconciled with the latter, on May  28, 2007 this case was  suspended, given the absence of a complaint  from the victim. It was  decided not to prosecute A. Ghevondyan, and  to close the case.  

On  June 29, 2018 Simonyan submitted a statement to the Armenian   Prosecutor General's Office.  In the statement, in particular, he   notes that it was not Arthur Ghevondyan who shot him, but A. Sargsyan   (the son of the third president Serzh Sargsyan's younger brother   Sashik Sargsyan). On that day, Simonyan had a quarrel with his friend   Ghevondyan, who was under influence of drugs. Sargsyan began to  threaten to kill Simonyan, then shot him on his belly from his own   pistol. Ghevondyan managed to take the pistol.  Sargsyan's borther N.   Sargsyan learnt about the incident and delivered Simonyan to   hospital. After Simonyan recovered himself the police officers stated   that it was Ghevondyan who shot him and the pistol was found near  kindergarten.  A. and N. Sargsyans threatened Simonyan that if he   does not confirm these testimonies, he will not live long.   Considering that new circumstances were discovered, the Prosecutor's   Office of Armenia decided to reopen a criminal case. To investigate  all  the circumstances, the case was sent to the Investigative  Committee  of Armenia.

On July 4, members of the National Security Service conducted a  search in Sargsyan's house, after which Hayk Sargsyan was taken to  the Investigation Department, and his father Alexander Sargsyan,  better known as Sashik 50%, was detained by the National Security  Service.