MURDER OF DIRECTOR OF GNGO ‘KHOSROV FOREST STATE RESERVE’ SOLVED
ArmInfo
2009-11-20 14:39:00
ArmInfo. Murder of Director of GNGO "Khosrov Forest State Reserve"
Samvel Shaboyan has been solved, Head of the Central Criminal
Investigation Department of Armenia’s Police, Colonel of Police
Hovhannes Tamanyan said at a press-conference today. According to
him, the criminal, Karen Petrosyan, a resident of the town of Vedi
of Ararat region, born on 1978, has already been arrested, and the
arms have been withdrawn.
"I have currently no right to characterize the crime as vendetta,
since the motives of the murder will be clarified after preliminary
investigation", Tamanyan said when speaking about the reasons of the
murder. When asked why the body of the killed was carried to Artashat
from Yerevan, H. Tamanyan replied that an information about murder was
received from Artashat, where Shaboyan’s body was already delivered
to by his driver in his official car.
To recall, Samvel Shaboyan was killed on November 18 at about 11:50
PM local time in Myasnikyan Str. in Yerevan. At the moment of attack,
he was in his official car Toyota Prado with numbers 007 LL 71.