Eduard Babayan, head of the bodyguard of “Prosperous Armenia” party chairman Gagik Tsarukyan, was released from the penitentiary. Babayan’s lawyer Armen Melkonyan confirmed this information.

According to him, a petition was submitted to the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction to change Babayan’s preventive detention, according to which the court decided to release Babayan on bail. He mentioned, it is about a 20 million drams bail.   

To remind, Eduard Babayan was charged with the criminal act provided for in Article 112, Part 2, Clause 6 of the RA Criminal Code, that the latter hit Vyacheslav Harutyunov as part of a group and intentionally caused serious harm to Vyacheslav Harutyunov. Babayan was arrested on July 5.