RA POLICE MAKES A STATEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH DEATH OF OPERATIVE-INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT HEAD OF RA STATE TAX SERVICE
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 6 2006
YEREVAN, September 6. /ARKA/. The RA Police made a statement
in connection with the murder of Shahen Hovasapyan,
operative-investigation department head of the RA State Tax Service.
According to the Information-Analytical Office of the Police, on
September 6, at 9.35 a.m. the Central Office of the Police received
a signal of explosion on Byron Str. in the center of Yerevan.
An operative group, which had drove out to the place of the incident,
found out that the explosion occurred in GAS-31 with 005LL03 state
number.
As a result of the explosion Hovasapyan, who was in the car, died
and his driver was injured and was taken to hospital.
Police found it difficult to announce the preliminary version of the
accident, emphasizing that details of the case are being investigated;
motives of the murder are not known yet.
Police continues its work in the place of the incident.
A criminal case is instigated into the fact, stipulated by the article
402 of the RA Criminal Code "Murder", the case is processed by the
investigative department of the General Prosecutor’s Office.