Armenian tycoon’s bodyguard arrested
06.07.2018,
15:33
A court in Yerevan allowed today the Special Investigation Service of Armenia to arrest Eduard Babayan, the chief bodyguard of Gagik Tsarukyan, an influential Armenian businessman and head of the Prosperous Armenia party, which has the second-largest faction in parliament.
YEREVAN, July 6. /ARKA/. A court in Yerevan allowed today the Special Investigation Service of Armenia to arrest Eduard Babayan, the chief bodyguard of Gagik Tsarukyan, an influential Armenian businessman and head of the Prosperous Armenia party, which has the second-largest faction in parliament.
Babayan was charged earlier of deliberately causing grave harm to a person's health, born in 1968, who was taken to Armenia medical center where he was diagnosed to have suffered right-sided pneumothorax, a fracture of the 9th right rib, subcutaneous emphysema of the osterior surface of the thorax.
The Special Investigative Service said there was enough evidence collected as part of a criminal case, to formally request the court to allow Babayan’s arrest.
Earlier the police showed an interview with the beaten man from a hospital, who said he was attacked after asking Tsarukyan to help withdraw an international arrest warrant issued by Armenian law-enforcement agencies for his son, who was a world boxing champion in 2012, for draft evasion.
The police quoted the man as saying that he was attacked by Gagik Tsarukyan who struck him, and after that he was beaten up by Babayan and a third person whose identity is being established. However, a spokeswoman for Tsarukyan denied his involvement in the alleged beating.
The police said the incident was witnessed by the Minister of Emergency Situations Hrachya Rostomyan and the Deputy Chairman of the National Olympic Committee Derenik Gabrielyan. -0-
Babayan was charged earlier of deliberately causing grave harm to a person's health, born in 1968, who was taken to Armenia medical center where he was diagnosed to have suffered right-sided pneumothorax, a fracture of the 9th right rib, subcutaneous emphysema of the osterior surface of the thorax.
The Special Investigative Service said there was enough evidence collected as part of a criminal case, to formally request the court to allow Babayan’s arrest.
Earlier the police showed an interview with the beaten man from a hospital, who said he was attacked after asking Tsarukyan to help withdraw an international arrest warrant issued by Armenian law-enforcement agencies for his son, who was a world boxing champion in 2012, for draft evasion.
The police quoted the man as saying that he was attacked by Gagik Tsarukyan who struck him, and after that he was beaten up by Babayan and a third person whose identity is being established. However, a spokeswoman for Tsarukyan denied his involvement in the alleged beating.
The police said the incident was witnessed by the Minister of Emergency Situations Hrachya Rostomyan and the Deputy Chairman of the National Olympic Committee Derenik Gabrielyan. -0-
