A Trial For Policemen Charged With RA Citizen’s Murder Has Started

A TRIAL FOR POLICEMEN CHARGED WITH RA CITIZEN’S MURDER HAS STARTED

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
05.06.2009 13:15 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Saratov regional court has started a trial for 3
Saratov police agents: Korchagin, Ogoltsev, Churikov, charged with
a murder and burning the victim alive, court Press Secretary, Irina
Belyakova reported.

Jury trial was determined at the first sitting. Prosecutor voiced
the bill of particulars and the victim’s wife was interrogated.

On the night of October 28/29, 2008, the 3 policemen arrested RA
citizen Armen Gasparyan and forced him to confess to having robbed
gold decorations. As a matter of fact, the person arrested had not
even witnessed the crime. Unable to extort confessions, they beat
him to death and then moved his body to a forest plantation to burn
it with petrol.