ARMENIA AND RUSSIA INVESTIGATORS NOT EXCHANGING EVIDENCE ON PERMYAKOV CASE

00:15, 12.02.2015

YEREVAN. – The investigative agencies of Armenia and Russia exchange
no evidence pertaining to the criminal case involving Russian soldier
Valery Permyakov, who is the accused in the recent murder of seven
people in Armenia’s Gyumri city.

Sona Truzyan, the adviser to the chairman of the Investigative
Committee of Armenia, recalled to Armenian News-NEWS.am that an
Armenian-Russian joint coordination headquarters has been formed,
whose members are holding discussions and developing an investigative
action plan.

She added, however, that information exchange is possible, but an
exchange of evidence is not, within the framework of these talks.

“The parties have not transferred evidence to one another,” Truzyan
stressed.

As reported earlier, six members of the Avetisyan family–including
a two-year-old girl–were shot dead, and a six-month-old baby was
wounded in their house in Gyumri on January 12; and the baby boy died
in hospital on January 19.

Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian Military Base
in Gyumri, stands accused in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended
by the Russian border guards near the Armenian-Turkish border on the
same night, he was arrested on January 14, and he is held in custody
at the Russian military base.

The soldier is charged under Russian law, with “the murder of more than
two people” and “desertion with a service weapon.” And on January 21,
the Investigative Committee of Armenia also filed a criminal charge
against Permyakov, and with “premeditated murder of two or more
persons.” The Russian soldier has accepted the charges.

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