A criminal case is launched into the kidnapping and subsequent beating of a police officer in Armenia’s Artik city on January 10. And Shirag Region’s resident Anushavan Baghdasaryan is charged with kidnapping officer Lukash Minasyan of Police Force’s Artik Precinct.

According to investigation results, Anushavan Baghdasaryan, together with his friends M. and A. Khachatryan, kidnapped Lukash Minasyan on January 10. They subsequently took him to a café in Artik city, where they beat Minasyan. And in an attempt to prevent the criminal violation threatening his life and health, the police officer fired six shots—three into the air and three in the direction of Baghdasaryan’s foot—and injured the latter. Anushavan Baghdasaryan is arrested.        

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the ruling coalition’s Prosperous Armenia Party MP Martun Grigoryan denies the information that Getap village resident Anushavan Baghdasaryan—one of the persons who was involved in the shots fired at an Artik city café on January 10—is his, or his father’s, bodyguard. “I know Anushavan, but he has no connection with me. I do not have a bodyguard,” Martun Grigoryan himself told Armenian News-NEWS.am. To note, according to Artik residents, Anushavan Baghdasaryan is a member of Martun Grigoryan’s and his father’s security personnel.