OFFICIAL RELEASE OF OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

Lragir.am
06 Sept 06

The Office of the Attorney General made an official release on with
the assassination of Shahen Hovasapyan, the head of the Department
of Investigations of the Tax Agency in the morning of September 6
in Yerevan.

"On September 3, around 9.15 in Byron Street in Yerevan an unknown
person (persons) killed Shahen Hovasapyan, the head of the Department
of Investigations of the Tax Agency who was in his GAZ 3102 car with
the number 005 LL 03," runs the statement of the procuracy.

The procuracy states that car was blown up, endangering the life of
many people, through a bomb, which detonated by remote control. When
the car went off, besides Shahen Hovasapyan, his son Grigor Hovasapyan
and the driver Andranik Charchyan were in the car. The son and the
driver are alive.

The press secretary of the Attorney General informed that the
Department of Investigations of the Office of the Attorney General
instituted legal proceedings under Article 104 Part 2 of the Crime
Code of Armenia – intentional murder, no extenuating conditions.

Investigation is underway.