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Armenian Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan is prepared to receive the murdered Gyumri family’s relatives on Friday at 5:00 pm, a source in the Prosecutor General’s Office press service told Panorama.am.

The respective notification was sent to lawyer Yerem Sargsyan, who represents the interests of the murdered family’s legal successors, Monday morning. Earlier, Yerem Sargsyan addressed a petition to the Prosecutor General’s Office from the Avetisyan family’s relatives asking for a meeting with the Prosecutor General.

On February 23, relatives of the Avetisyan family went to Shirak Prosecutor’s Office demanding to arrange a meeting or a phone conversation with Gevorg Kostanyan. They demanded more information about the investigation.

Six members of one family, including a two-year-old child, were shot dead in their house in Gyumri on January 12. A six-month-old baby was hospitalized with stab wounds. He died in hospital on January 12. Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian military base stationed in Gyumri, the main suspect in the murder, was detained by Russian border guards while attempting to cross the Armenian-Turkish border near Yerazgavors village in Armenia’s Shirak province. Permyakov is held in custody at the Russian military base. He was questioned and confessed to the crime. Permyakov is charged under Article 105.2 and 338.2 of the Russian Criminal Code (murder and desertion). Also, Armenian Investigative Committee brought a charge against Permyakov under Article 104 part 2 point 1 (murder of two or more persons) of the Armenian Criminal Code.  

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