IC of Armenia on the death of a soldier-conscript charged the chief  of a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons

ArmInfo. The chief of the missile and artillery armament depot of the military unit was charged  in the framework of the criminal case on the death of a soldier of  conscripted service, private Grant Mangasaryan.

As the press service of the Investigative Committee of Armenia  reports, as a result of the complex investigative measures, data were  received on the negligent attitude of the authorized representatives  of the military unit to their official duties, the circle of persons  who committed the alleged crime was specified.

The SC of Armenia recalled that on 4 November 2017 at 12:10 local  time, as a result of the explosion in the warehouse of the Nth  military unit, the conscripted soldiers Hrant Mangasaryan, who at  that moment was carrying out works. Head of the warehouse, contract  serviceman G. Yusnunts and Private S. Alumyan were injured of varying  severity.

"Based on the factual evidence obtained, it turned out that Major A.  Grigoryan, the head of the missile and artillery armament depot of  the military unit, violating the rules for the storage of weapons and  military equipment in the warehouse, without the right to store the  manual cumulative grenades RKG-3, stored them there after the  hostilities of 2016 without reporting immediately to the  commandership. In addition, ignoring the regulations prohibiting the  disassembly of any type of weapons in the warehouse, on November 4,  G. Yusnunts, the head of the warehouse of the same service, to bring  the above-mentioned grenades into a non-combatant state and put them  in boxes. In these works, to which Mangasaryan was involved, an  explosion of an anti-tank grenade took place, G. Yusnunts was charged  on the grounds of Article 374 of the RA Criminal Code Earlier, in the  framework of the criminal case under investigation, the accusation  was also brought against the head of the artillery armament depot of  the military unit A.  Grigoryan (art. 376 Part 2 of the RA Criminal  Code)," the RA IC said.