ARMENIAN COURT REJECTS PETITION TO CHANGE VARDAN PETROSYAN’S RESTRAINING ORDER

November 21, 2013 | 18:21

YEREVAN. – The Criminal Appellate Court of Armenia on Thursday rejected
the petition to commute the restraining order of well-known actor and
comedian Vardan Petrosyan, who is under arrest in connection with a
road accident on October 20.

The court will make public the reasons in three days, actor’s lawyer
Nikolay Baghdasaryan told the crowd gathered to support Petrosyan.

To note, a major accident occurred on October 20 in Kotayk Region. A
BMW and a VAZ 2121-model vehicle crashed at around 9:20pm on the
Yeghvard-Yerevan motorway. As a result, seven people sustained injuries
and were transferred to several hospitals. Among them was famous actor
and comedian Vardan Petrosyan, whose liver and spleen had ruptured. His
spleen was removed, his ruptured liver was stitched, and he recently
was discharged from hospital. As a result of the accident, however,
cousins Edgar and Eduard Hakobyan-who were passengers in the VAZ
2121-had died.

A criminal case is instituted on the incident, Vardan Petrosyan was
formally arrested, and he was kept at a prison hospital. But since he
has heart issues and these problems aggravated recently, the renowned
actor was taken to a cardiovascular medical center on Monday.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress