Mayor of Gyumri accuses "Prosperous Armenia" of murdering daughter's fiance

The Mayor of the Armenian city of Gyumri, Vartan Gukasian, accused the party "Prosperous Armenia" (PPA) of murdering his daughter's fiance, Trend reports with reference to the Armenian newspaper "Hraparak" (Square).
According to the Armenian media, a day before, in Gyumri, the fiance of the mayor's daughter, 27-year-old Karen Yesayan, was killed on the day of their engagement. Yesayan's body with a gunshot wound was found in his car. Upon this fact, a criminal case has been instituted according to the first part of  Article 104 (murder) and Article 235 (illegal acquisition, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons) of the Criminal Code. Later, the police reported that someone has been detained in the process of the investigation into the murder in Gyumri, but his name has not been disclosed in the interests of the investigation.

A day before, Ghukasian, in an interview with the newspaper "Hraparak", rejected the widely-discussed version that the murder of his future son-in-law was motivated by jealousy.

"(This case) is nothing personal or committed out of jealousy. This thread surely leads to the PPA. In other words, those people arrested are among prominent representatives of "Prosperous Armenia", he says.

In turn, the responsible PPA person in Gyumri, Martun Grigoryan, dismissed the mayor's claims.

"Nothing like this is possible. The detainee is not a member of the PPA, for sure. I officially declare this," he said, expressing regret over the incident and the belief that it cannot be associated with politics.

The note also points out that, although the police did not announce the name of the detainee, according to some reports he is Arutyun Sargsyan, the son of the former Chief of Police in Gyumri's Ani district, Samvel Sargsyan.

"For sure, Arutyun is not a member of the PPA, let alone a prominent representative of it," Grigoryan says.