Mariana Mkrtchyan. The chief of the missile and artillery armament depot of the military unit was charged in the framework of the criminal case on the death of a soldier of conscripted service, private Grant Mangasaryan.

As the press service of the Investigative Committee of Armenia reports, as a result of the complex investigative measures, data were received on the negligent attitude of the authorized representatives of the military unit to their official duties, the circle of persons who committed the alleged crime was specified.

The SC of Armenia recalled that on 4 November 2017 at 12:10 local time, as a result of the explosion in the warehouse of the Nth military unit, the conscripted soldiers Hrant Mangasaryan, who at that moment was carrying out works. Head of the warehouse, contract serviceman G. Yusnunts and Private S. Alumyan were injured of varying severity.

"Based on the factual evidence obtained, it turned out that Major A. Grigoryan, the head of the missile and artillery armament depot of the military unit, violating the rules for the storage of weapons and military equipment in the warehouse, without the right to store the manual cumulative grenades RKG-3, stored them there after the hostilities of 2016 without reporting immediately to the commandership. In addition, ignoring the regulations prohibiting the disassembly of any type of weapons in the warehouse, on November 4, G. Yusnunts, the head of the warehouse of the same service, to bring the above-mentioned grenades into a non-combatant state and put them in boxes. In these works, to which Mangasaryan was involved, an explosion of an anti-tank grenade took place, G. Yusnunts was charged on the grounds of Article 374 of the RA Criminal Code Earlier, in the framework of the criminal case under investigation, the accusation was also brought against the head of the artillery armament depot of the military unit A. Grigoryan (art. 376 Part 2 of the RA Criminal Code)," the RA IC said.