04:01, 7 February 2015

Armenia's IC starts checking possible Permyakov's relations with Avetisyan family

The Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia is now examining an assumption about some relationships of Valery Permyakov, accused of massacring the Avetisyan family in Gyumri and members of this family.

On January 12, in Gyumri, six members of the Avetisyan family were assassinated. The only survivor of the attack – the six-month-old Sergey Avetisyan – was hospitalized in critical condition and died in hospital on January 19. A Russian regular soldier Valery Permyakov was arrested as a suspect of committing the massacre. The mass murder in Gyumri triggered a wave of protests after the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia said that Valery Permyakov, suspected of the crime, would not be given out to Armenian law enforcement bodies, since he is a citizen of Russia.

As a result of undertaken operative activities, it became known that Khasmik and Aida Avetisyan and Araksia Pogosyan, assassinated by Permyakov, never went out of Armenia since 2005, says the message of the IC, received by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on February 6.

According to the IC, Sergey and Armen Avetisyan had periodically travelled to work in Russia, in particular, in Moscow, Krasnodar, Anapa, Sochi and Rostov-on-Don.

Investigative actions aimed to check this version continue, the message says.

Let us note here that the version that the Russian soldier might be familiar with some of the victims of the massacre in Gyumri was announced on January 17 by Alexander Amaryan, the head of the rehabilitation centre for victims of destructive cults. He suggested that family members "had worked in Chita; and they could know Permyakov long before the commission of the crime," and, perhaps, had relation to one of religious organizations, the "News-Armenia" reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Armine Martirosyan

Source: CK correspondent