Investigation of the criminal case into the murder of the four members of the Armenian Kachotyan family of Georgia’s Vachiani village is still in progress. 

Although the investigation is ongoing for nearly a year, there is no finding yet in the criminal case, Vachiani mayor Fedya Torosyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“The investigation continues solely after the suicide of the defendant,” he said. “But there is nothing new.”

Torosyan noted that Vaghinak Kachotyan, who lost his wife and three children in the murder, is not in the village and has gone to Russia.

“He’s at work abroad,” the village mayor added. “There is nothing anymore to keep [him] in the village.”

Even though Kachotyan left the village, he continues the fight to find out who are guilty in the murder of his three children and wife.

Nodar Akopov, who was charged with these murders, had committed suicide in prison, on August 27 of the year past.

The Kachotyan’s relatives, however, claim that Akopov could not have committed these murders all by himself, there were others with him, but they are not yet revealed.

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—a predominantly-Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province, by their relatives, on July 10, 2016.

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 Turkish-Georgian border checkpoint is nearby the said primarily-Armenian-populated village.