Nodar Akopov, who is charged with the July 9 murder of four members of the Armenian Kachotyan family in Vachiani village in the Akhalkalaki Region of the Samtskhe-Javakheti Province of Georgia, was not alone when committing this crime.
Mrs. Armine, a relative of the slain family, on Friday told about the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.
She said the law enforcement has a reason to believe that, on that night, Akopov had not broken into the Kachotyan house unaccompanied.
Even though he maintains that he had acted alone, investigation has revealed new suspects.
Mrs. Armine also noted that Nodar’s mother had telephoned the relatives of the Kachotyan family one week ago, and stated that the relatives of her son’s wife had committed this murder.
Nodar Akopov is under arrest.
As reported earlier, four members of the Kachotyan family—the 37-year-old mother as well as her 5-, 13-, and 18-year-old children—were found dead in their home in the aforesaid village in Javakheti, by their relatives, on July 10.
Javakheti is a predominantly-Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province.
According to preliminary information, the assailant had killed the mother and her daughters with a blunt instrument, whereas strangled the boy to death.
The table and chairs of the house were lying on the floor, and the house was sooty with smoke.
The father of the family, Vaghinak Kachotyan, was in Russia as a migrant worker.
To note, a newly opened Turkish-Georgian border checkpoint is nearby the said primarily-Armenian-populated village.
