Car Of Head Of Investigation Department Was Blown Up

CAR OF HEAD OF INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT WAS BLOWN UP

Lragir.am
06 Sept 06

On September 6 the head of the Department of Investigation of the Tax
Agency Shahen Hovasapyan was killed in a car explosion in the center
of Yerevan . The Lragir has learned that the accident happened around
10 o’clock in the morning, on Byron Street. Shahen Hovasapyan’s car
was blown up. Hovasapyan died, the driver is badly wounded.

Over the past 4 years Shahen Hovasapyan, 48 was the head of the
Department of Investigation of the Tax Agency, in other words, the tax
police. Before that he was the head of the Department of Big Taxpayers,
the Ministry of State Receipts.

On September 6 the police of Armenia made a statement on the
assassination of the head of the Department of Investigation of the
Tax Agency Shahen Hovasapyan. Legal proceedings were instituted under
Article 402 Murder of the Crime Code of Armenia. The motives of the
murder are not known yet.