ArmInfo.Vahagn Harutyunyan, former deputy chairman of the Investigative Committee of Armenia, was detained in Moscow.
As reported by TASS source, Vahagn Harutyunyan was put on the wanted list in the 2008 murder criminal case. The issue of his extradition to Armenia is currently being decided. Earlier, the investigation established that Harutyunyan, being the deputy head of the Investigative Committee, hid the fact that the police used firearms during the dispersal of the rally in 2008. Together with his accomplice, he replaced the shot live ammunition as a whole. During the clashes between the protesters and the police, eight demonstrators were killed, 33 law enforcement officers were hospitalized, and two were killed.