YEREVAN.- Armenian police officers detained four people supected of kidnapping 23-year-old Hovhannes Khmelyan on December 12.

According to Shamshyan.com, , 4 people in a Mercedes car, using violence, kidnapped Hovhannes Khmelyan on December 12 at around 23:30, brought him to a private house in the Kanaker district and beat him. During the beating, they threatened his life with a pistol and a knife. The police found out that the kidnappers were residents of Yerevan.

According to the source, Khmelyan is the nephew of the Acting Armavir police chief, Colonel Samvel Khmelyan, who is involved in another criminal case as a witness.