Wednesday, May 17 2023 19:32

ArmInfo.  Based on Ashot Pashinyan's petition on the alleged kidnapping, a criminal case has  been initiated. Gor Abrahamyan, press secretary of the RA Investigative Committee, announced  on his Facebook page.

<I consider it necessary to inform that the petition submitted by  Ashot Pashinyan to the RA Police was recently submitted to the RA  Investigative Committee. Based on petition, a criminal case was  initiated in the Grave Crimes Investigation Department of Yerevan  City of the RA Criminal Investigation Department on the grounds of  paragraph 1 of part 2 of Article 191 of the RA Criminal Code. Urgent  investigative actions are being carried out to clarify the  circumstances. Later, the Investigative Committee of the Republic of  Armenia will make a statement," the report says.

Earlier the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper, owned by the family of the  head of the Cabinet, reported that there was an  attempt to kidnap  Ashot Pashinyan, son of the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

<According to preliminary data, the members of an NGO called Call of  Sons reportedly forced Ashot Pashinyan to get into their car and  drove off. At one point, when the car stopped, the Pashinyan's son  jumped out of the car and was hit by a car which was travelling  behind, also belonging to members of the same organization.  Ashot  Pashinyan reported the incident to law enforcement officers>, the  newspaper writes.

At the same time, the newspaper accused a member of the "Call of  Sons" NGO Garik Galeyan, the father of the deceased Mkhitar Galeyan,  of involvement in the incident.

In response, the Call of Sons NGO issued a statement saying that  after the next court session on the case on September 21 in Yerablur,  members of the Call of Sons NGO, after leaving the court building,  accidentally met Ashot Pashinyan. Only mothers of deceased soldiers  approached Ashot Pashinyan and offered to get into the car, talk and  go to Yerablur together.

<Ashot Pashinyan, without objection, without anyone's intervention,  got into the car of one of the mothers and went to the Yerablur  military pantheon. Then, on the way, for reasons unknown to us, Ashot  Pashinyan jumped out of the car.

Nobody was there in the car except for him and the woman. The rest of  the information is not true>, the statement says.