MORE DETAILS ON VANADZOR ASSASSINATION

A1+
[03:24 pm] 30 April, 2007

On April 26, at about 9:45 p.m., Hrant Hakobyan (b. in 1964), a
resident of Vanadzor city, was taken to N1 hospital with injuries.

The investigative group immediately arrived at the hospital, and the
doctors informed them that Hrant Hakobyan was unable to speak.

Hakobyan died during the operation on April 27.

A law suit started (Penal Code, Article 104) against Samvel Diloyan,
a resident of Vanadzor. The Prosecutor’s Office of Lori Marz is in
charge of the investigation. The forensic examination revealed that
Hakobyan had got 15 stabs in the back and in the leg.

The preliminary examination revealed that the conflict between Hakobyan
and Diloyan started over an everyday issue. Both of them are Vahram
Baghdasaryan’s Headquarters co-workers who is a candidate for the
parliamentary elections. Afterwards, the conflict turned into a real
fight in the area of "Tej Ler", near the former Vanadzor fur factory.

According to A1+ data, Hakobyan was formerly prosecuted and had been
registered in Lori Marz Psycho-Nerologic Clinic starting from 1982.

His accomplice A. Hovhannisyan has been suffering from schizophrenia
since 1998.

The police are in search for S. Diloyan and other participants of
the stripping.

Investigation is ongoing.