Bodyguard of Armenian tycoon released on 20 million dram bail
21.08.2018,
19:35
Eduard Babayan, the chief bodyguard of Gagik Tsarukyan, the head of Prosperous Armenia party’s parliamentary faction, a wealthy businessman and president of Armenia’s National Olympic Committee, was released today on 20 million dram (about $41,400) bail pending investigation.
YEREVAN, August 21. /ARKA/. Eduard Babayan, the chief bodyguard of Gagik Tsarukyan, the head of Prosperous Armenia party’s parliamentary faction, a wealthy businessman and president of Armenia’s National Olympic Committee, was released today on 20 million dram (about $41,400) bail pending investigation.
A local court in Yerevan allowed on July 3 the Special Investigation Service of Armenia to arrest Eduard Babayan. He was charged of deliberately causing grave harm to a person's health, who was taken to a medical center where he was diagnosed to have suffered right-sided pneumothorax, a fracture of the 9th right rib, subcutaneous emphysema of the osterior surface of the thorax.
The Special Investigative Service said there was enough evidence collected as part of a criminal case, to formally request the court to allow Babayan’s arrest.
The police showed an interview with the beaten man from a hospital, who said he was attacked after asking Tsarukyan to help withdraw an international arrest warrant issued by Armenian law-enforcement agencies for his son, who was a world boxing champion in 2012, for draft evasion.
The police quoted the man as saying that he was attacked by Gagik Tsarukyan who struck him, and after that he was beaten up by Babayan and a third person.
Tsarukyan and Babayan strongly denied the charges. Although later the alleged victim retracted his incriminating testimony and claimed that he stumbled and fell down, the bodyguard was prosecuted. -0-
A local court in Yerevan allowed on July 3 the Special Investigation Service of Armenia to arrest Eduard Babayan. He was charged of deliberately causing grave harm to a person's health, who was taken to a medical center where he was diagnosed to have suffered right-sided pneumothorax, a fracture of the 9th right rib, subcutaneous emphysema of the osterior surface of the thorax.
The Special Investigative Service said there was enough evidence collected as part of a criminal case, to formally request the court to allow Babayan’s arrest.
The police showed an interview with the beaten man from a hospital, who said he was attacked after asking Tsarukyan to help withdraw an international arrest warrant issued by Armenian law-enforcement agencies for his son, who was a world boxing champion in 2012, for draft evasion.
The police quoted the man as saying that he was attacked by Gagik Tsarukyan who struck him, and after that he was beaten up by Babayan and a third person.
Tsarukyan and Babayan strongly denied the charges. Although later the alleged victim retracted his incriminating testimony and claimed that he stumbled and fell down, the bodyguard was prosecuted. -0-
