FACT OF FALSE INFORMATION REVEALED DURING INVESTIGATION INTO CASE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER OF GYUMRI MAYOR
Noyan Tapan
Apr 26 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The Investigation Department of the
RA Prosecutor General’s Office on April 25 opened a criminal case on
the fact of false information during the investigation into the case
of attemped murder of Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasian. Spokeswoman for
the RA Prosecutor General Sona Truzian told NT correspondent about it.
On April 21 the police received a call from a citizen who informed
policemen that the attempted murder had been committed by residents
of Lori marz – three Sahakian brothers and Hamayak Sahakian, whom the
person, who ordered this crime, has paid 150 thousand dollars. The
above mentioned citizen also told policemen that the same persons are
allegedly going to kill the mayor of Vanadzor for 200 thousand dollars.
The investigative group revealed that the person who made this alarm
call was a resident of Gyumri. He informed on H. Sahakian and the
three other men with the aim of discrediting them in order to get
the right to own a 2,000 sq.m. land plot (in the city of Spitak)
currently owned by H. Sahakian.
Later on the same day NT correspondent was informed that the person
suspected of false denunciation was Hovhannes Sahakian, 42, resident
of Gyumri, who has been arrested.