Investigating agency will not investigate the death in car crash of a key witness under serviceman’s death
18:45, December 16, 2016 | News, Own news | Rights of Soldiers/Recruits | Armed Forces
Vachagan Hayrapetyan, a key witness under the case of Hovhannes Petrosyan, who died of an injury in his head in an RA Defense Ministry military unit in Ijevan on April 25, and his direct commander, died in a car crash a few days after confrontation with his father.
We reported this in our previous publication.
Artur Sakunts, Chairman of HCA Vanadzor, and Ani Chatinyan, lawyer at the Organization, protect the interests of Hovhannes Petrosyan’s successor.
By a letter of November 4, 2016, he applied to the Sixth Garrison Investigative Division of the General Military Investigation Department, RA Investigative Committee, responsible for the criminal proceedings initiated on the death of the serviceman, to investigate the circumstances of Vachagan Hayrapetyan’s death and expressed a position that it was necessary to find out whether his death was caused by accident and how it might be linked to the case of Hovhannes Petrosyan’s death given that he had no valuable information on the case at his disposal.
By his response letter of November 18, 2016, P. Ayvazyan, Head of the Sixth Garrison Investigative Division of the General Military Investigation Department, stated that the Division prepared no materials on the accident and instant death of Vachagan Hayrapetyan and no criminal investigation was in progress on the pretext that such investigation was beyond his powers. He attributed such investigation solely to the agency investigating V. Hayrapetyan’s death and saw no links with Hovhannes Petrosyan’s death.
It is noteworthy that the motion of the representatives of the victim’s successor did not concern investigation into the car crash by the Sixth Garrison Investigative Division of the General Military Investigation Department but rather identifying through relevant investigative actions its possible link with the criminal proceedings initiated under Hovhannes Petrosyan’s death given that the victim’s successor possessed no valuable information on the case.
Moreover, the said motion has no mention of initiating criminal proceedings on the car crash.