Pashinyan urges Kutoyan's family to cooperate with the investigation
22.01.2020,
19:05
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan urged today the members of the family of Georgy Kutoyan, former director of the National Security Service, to cooperate with the investigation.
YEREVAN, January 22. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan urged today the members of the family of Georgy Kutoyan, former director of the National Security Service, to cooperate with the investigation.
Georgy Kutoyan was found shot to death in his Yerevan apartment on January 17. The Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation under a penal code article on driving a person to suicide.
“If I’m not mistaken, a criminal case has been instituted under the article of driving a person to commit suicide and the investigation is underway. Members of Kutoyan's family should be most interested in clarifying all the circumstances of the case, and I believe that they should fully cooperate with the investigating authority so that the truth is fully revealed,' Pashinyan said.
Pashinyan said the government is exploiting all the levers so that this case, like all others, is fully disclosed.
Artur Melikyan, a high-ranking Investigative Committee official, said earlier that Kutoyan, 38, was killed by a gunshot fired at his head. He said investigators also found about 40 bullets in the apartment.
The Investigative Committee said last week it had evidence that at the end of December 2019, Kutoyan visited alone the apartment, where, after drinking alcohol, he fired 35 random shots from the legally owned Glock 34 pistol into the wall between the living room and the kitchen.
Speaking to reporters last Sunday, Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan said the investigators have collected enough evidence testifying that Kutoyan committed a suicide.
Kutoyan had worked as an assistant to former president Serzh Sargsyan from 2011 until his appointment as director of the NSS in February 2016. He was dismissed by newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in May 2018 immediately after the “Velvet Revolution” that made Serzh Sargsyan step down. -0-
Georgy Kutoyan was found shot to death in his Yerevan apartment on January 17. The Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation under a penal code article on driving a person to suicide.
“If I’m not mistaken, a criminal case has been instituted under the article of driving a person to commit suicide and the investigation is underway. Members of Kutoyan's family should be most interested in clarifying all the circumstances of the case, and I believe that they should fully cooperate with the investigating authority so that the truth is fully revealed,' Pashinyan said.
Pashinyan said the government is exploiting all the levers so that this case, like all others, is fully disclosed.
Artur Melikyan, a high-ranking Investigative Committee official, said earlier that Kutoyan, 38, was killed by a gunshot fired at his head. He said investigators also found about 40 bullets in the apartment.
The Investigative Committee said last week it had evidence that at the end of December 2019, Kutoyan visited alone the apartment, where, after drinking alcohol, he fired 35 random shots from the legally owned Glock 34 pistol into the wall between the living room and the kitchen.
Speaking to reporters last Sunday, Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan said the investigators have collected enough evidence testifying that Kutoyan committed a suicide.
Kutoyan had worked as an assistant to former president Serzh Sargsyan from 2011 until his appointment as director of the NSS in February 2016. He was dismissed by newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in May 2018 immediately after the “Velvet Revolution” that made Serzh Sargsyan step down. -0-
