INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED INTO MURDER OF ARMENIA’S DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF
ARKA
Feb 4, 2009
YEREVAN, February 4. /ARKA/. A probe has been launched into the murder
of Deputy Chief of the RA Police Gevorg Mheryan.
On February 3, 20:30pm, Arabkir Department of the RA Police received
a call, saying RA Deputy Police Chief Col. Gevorg Mheryan was shot
dead as he was about to enter his apartment on the seventh floor of
a multistory building in 65 Barbyus St., the Press Service of the RA
Police reports.
Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, RA Police Chief Alik Sargsyan,
Director of the RA National Security Council Gorik Hakobyan came to
the site.
The emergency team fixed at the site that Mheryan had got three shots
in the head and one in the body.
The RA Special Investigative Service has launched a criminal
investigation into the case.
RA President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree, July 2, 2008, appointing
Gevorg Mheryan, 34, Deputy Chief of the RA Police. Prior to that,
Mheryan was the RA President’s Aide and was Chairman of the
Anti-Corruption Strategy Monitoring Group.