ArmInfo. Serzh Sargsyan's nephew, son of Sashik Sargsyan-Hayk is charged with attempted murder, as well as illegal acquisition and possession of weapons.
As the press service of the Armenian Armed Forces informs, in the framework of the criminal case investigated by the investigation department for the Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of the Investigative Department of the RA Investigation Committee in Yerevan, large-scale investigative actions were carried out. As a result, the real circumstances of the receipt of a gunshot wound by a resident of Yerevan David Simonyan (1984) on April 1, 2007, as well as the identity of the alleged offender, were established.
Earlier the IC reported that on April 1, 2007 David Simonyan was taken with a gunshot wound to the third clinical hospital from the intersection of Tumanyan and Nalbandyan streets. On the same day A. Gevondian appeared in the central police department, who presented a gun and said that he had found him near the staircase leading from the adjacent kindergarten to the basement, and because of careless handling of the guns he fired, wounding his friend - D. Simonyan.
In the Central Investigation Department of the Police on May 28, 2007, it was decided to terminate the proceedings in the criminal case instituted on this fact and the failure to prosecute A. Gevondyan on the basis of conciliation of the parties and the absence of a complaint provided for in subsections 35 (4) and (4) The Code of Criminal Procedure. In connection with the newly discovered circumstances, on July 3, 2018, the Prosecutor General overturned the decision, and the criminal case was sent to the investigative department for the Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of the Investigative Department of the Armenian Investigative Committee for the production of a preliminary investigation. On the same day the investigator took him to the proceedings and took the necessary investigative and other procedural steps aimed at establishing the circumstances of the incident.
In the course of the preliminary investigation, factual evidence was obtained that in fact D. Simonyan received a gunshot wound on April 1, 2007 at about 16:00 in a room located in the basement of an apartment at 11 Tumanyan Street in Yerevan, where lives Hayk Aleksandrovich Sargsyan, as a result of the shot fired by the latter. The motive of the quarrel was established, as well as the identity of the eyewitness of the incident.
Based on the evidence, Hayk Aleksandrovich Sargsyan is charged with attempted murder, as well as illegal acquisition and storage of weapons on the grounds of part 1 of Article 34-104 (attempted murder) and Part 1 of Article 235 (illegal acquisition, sale, storage, transportation or carrying weapons, ammunition, explosives or explosive devices) of the RA Criminal Code. The investigator filed an application to the court to elect a preventive measure against him in the form of detention. The preliminary investigation continues.