ArmInfo.The soldier has been arrested for violating the rules of combat duty or military service, the Investigative Committee of Armenia reports. According to the information, a preliminary investigation is underway in the Investigative Committee on a criminal case opened in the case of a fatal gunshot wound to one serviceman and gunshot wounds of another serviceman.
"As a result of urgent investigative and other judicial procedural actions, a number of circumstances of the incident were revealed that are of significant importance for the investigation, including the identity of the person who committed the obvious crime, who is a serviceman of the same military unit. Earlier it was reported that the latter was detained on suspicion of violating the rules of military service or on duty. With the totality of sufficient evidence obtained, he was charged under Part 3 of Art. 365 (violation of the rules of combat duty or military service, which entailed grave consequences) of the RA Criminal Code. The body conducting the proceedings applied to the court for his arrest as a preventive measure, which was granted.
The investigation continues, " the message of the investigating authority reads. As previously reported, on September 13, at about 10:00pm, at one of the combat posts located in the southeastern direction of Armenia, according to preliminary data, a reserve sergeant, 43-year-old Mkrtich Hovakimyan, received a fatal gunshot wound due to violation of the rules for organizing combat service.