YEREVAN. – The Criminal Appellate Court of Armenia on Thursday will examine 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.

Petrosyan’s attorney Nikolay Baghdasaryan told the abovementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Petrosyan and his attorney had petitioned to the aforesaid court and appealed the Kotayk regional court’s ruling on a two-month detention for the actor.    

Baghdasaryan added, however, that there is nothing new on their respective petitions and appeals that were sent to the Police and the prosecution.  

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.