Head of Russian investigation committee Alexander Bastrikin and chairman of the Armenian investigation committee Aghvan Hovsepyan agreed to develop cooperation.

The officials discussed issues of strengthening bilateral cooperation, enhancing effectiveness of mutual legal assistance in the criminal cases that are being investigated in Russia and Armenia, representative of Russian investigation committee Vladimir Markin told RIA Novosti.

One of the criminal cases the parties are working on is the case of Russian serviceman Valery Permaykov, a suspect in a murder of seven citizens of Armenia.