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 Armenian General Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan sent a letter to Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika over Manvel Saribekyan’s death case.

RA Prosecutor's General Office reports through its official website that on November 4, 2010 the Azerbaijani side returned to Armenia the body of the resident of Ttujur village of Gegharkunik region Manvel Saribekyan who, according to the official announcement made by Azerbaijan died on October 5, 2010 as a result of strangulation.

The RA Prosecutor General tasked to initiate a criminal case according to the RA Criminal Code Article 104, part 2, points 5 and 13 (murder committed with particular cruelty and out of motives of national, race or religious hate or fanatism) by the RA Police. The preliminary investigation of the criminal case was tasked to the Investigation Department of the National Security Service adjunct to the RA Government.

The RA Prosecutor General in December 2010 sent a letter to the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Mr. Zakir Bekir with the request to provide assistance to the investigation of the criminal case, in particular to inform whether any investigation on the case of Manvel Mamikon Saribekyan’s violent death had been carried out by the Investigation Bodies of Azerbaijan and if there had been, to send the criminal case or the materials of the criminal case. The General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Armenia had also assured that the received data and documents would be used only in the framework of the investigation.