YEREVAN. – Deputy Chief of Police Valeri Osipyan is not aware of a criminal case launched against him.

“I am not aware of it. You should address the police press service,” he said talking to the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent on the phone.

He did not answer the question why criminal case had been launched and switched off in anger.

As reported earlier, the Special Investigation Service (SIS) of Armenia has opened a criminal case against capital city Yerevan Deputy Chief of Police Valeri Osipyan.

On the night of June 1, Valeri Osipyan’s nephew had stabbed Vanush Aleksanyan, 22. Subsequently, there were media reports stating that the Yerevan deputy police chief had met with the mother of one of the persons involved in the incident, and attempted to reach an agreement with her so as to lay all the blame for the stabbing on the woman’s son.