YEREVAN. – The Investigative Committee of Armenia (ICA) on Saturday received the reports of the criminal case examined by the Investigative Committee of Russia, and into the murder of the Avetisyan family members in Gyumri, Armenia.

The ICA investigation team members, together with their Russian colleagues, examined the aforesaid criminal case, and jointly set aside the reports relating to the murder investigation.

As a result, the separated reports have amounted to nine volumes, which on Saturday were handed over to the ICA.

These reports, which are in Russian, have been sent to translation into Armenian.

Six members of the Avetisyan family—including a two-year-old girl—were shot dead, and a six-month-old baby was wounded in their house in Gyumri on January 12; and the baby boy died in hospital on January 19. Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian Military Base in Gyumri, stands accused in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended by the Russian border guards, and near the Armenian-Turkish border.

On February 3, Prosecutor General of Armenia Gevorg Kostanyan had petitioned to his Russian counterpart Yury Chaika, with a request that the criminal proceedings launched on this brutal murder be handed over to Armenian law enforcement.