CASE ON BEATING SERGE SARGSIAN’S EMPOWERED PERSON SENT TO NORTHERN CRIMINAL COURT

Noyan Tapan
Feb 28, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The preliminary examination of
the criminal case instituted on the fact of beating RA presidential
candidate Serge Sargsian’s empowered person has been finished in the
RA Special Investigation Service. On February 26, the case was sent
to the Northern Criminal Court. Noyan Tapan was informed about it by
the website of the RA Prosecutor General’s Office.

According to the case, during the February 19 RA presidential
elections, Suren Avetisian was registered as the empowered person of RA
presidential candidate Serge Sargsian by the order established by the
law at polling station N 36/34 in the town of Maralik. Learning that
S. Avetisian is RA presidential candidate Serge Sargsian’s empowered
person, the defendant on the case, Haroutiun Urutian hindered his
entrance to the polling station, quarrelled, deliberately with his
fists and head delivered blows to him inflicting him bodily injuries
and hindered the implementation of the empowered person’s duties.