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Today, at the National Assembly, the MP of ANC faction Hrant Bagratyan also posed questions to the candidate for Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan, who was answering the questions of the MPs. One of the questions was related to the case of officer Artak Nazaryan, deceased in 2010 in “Mehrabner” military base. Mr. Bagratyan was interested what the candidate for Prosecutor General Military Prosecutor would say regarding the allegation of Artak Nazaryan’s relatives that Artak’s death should not be qualified as a suicide, and as evidence, they present that 120 bullets assigned to Artak were in place and did not decrease in number. In response, Gevorg Kostanyan reminded that Artak Nazaryan’s case is now at the Court of Cassation, “The culprits, who caused him to commit suicide, are in prison,” and also said that at this point it is impossible to say how the cartridges happened to full, but knows that forensic-ballistic investigation with capsule-bullet-weapon combination has confirmed that “the capsule is from that weapon and that bullet had shot our victim.” He also said that “any argument that has been voiced, I have invited the legal successor of the victim, the lawyer and have given a complete answer.”

It can assume from these words that the victim’s legal successor and the lawyer have received the “complete answers” to their questions and have been satisfied.  However, in the interview with “Aravot”, Tsovinar Nazaryan, Artak Nazaryan’s legal successor claimed the opposite, “He is a liar. We certainly were not satisfied. After the meeting at the “Aravot”, Naira Mamikonyan talked to us, me and Zhanna Alexanyan, who was also present at the meeting, and published great articles. It is clear from this how displeased we were from that meeting, what complete answer are they talking about?” However, how has the Military Prosecutor explained the fact that 120 bullets assigned to Artak were in place? Tsovinar Nazaryan said, “He did not explain it any way. They say that the average gun can contain more than 30 bullets, 31 or 32. We do not deny it, even though many experts say that it cannot contain, but because it is controversial, we do not deny.

But it remains a fact that before his death, Artak received 120 bullets. After his death, they were all in the place in three cases, 30 in each, the fourth case was in the gun with 29 cartridges inside, and one cartridge was in the muzzle of the gun, it makes 120, all were in the place. And, now, where did they get the bullet, with which Artak allegedly killed himself? They have found a capsule from the crime scene and have sent it for examination. Conclusion of the examination gives another number of the capsule, they say that it is the same number, simply read backward, how they read number 78 backward, I have no idea. My guess is that the investigator who by his confession fired testing shots in place, he fired  these testing shots just for getting the capsule released from Artak’s gun, since the capsule in the crime scene could not have any connection with Artak’s gun. It is obvious that it could not be Artak’s. Because, if you are a man, and you want to commit a suicide, why should you take “a bullet from side”? For what? Not to have a deficit in the detachment unit? Was it his only problem left?… Just this fact alone denies the fact of suicide. But, such proofs are many. Including the fact that all fingerprints were scratched away from the gun.”