ArmInfo. Eduard Babayan, head of the guard of the MP, businessman, head of the National Olympic Committee, leader of the Tsarukyan block Gagik Tsarukyan, will remain in custody. The Armenian Criminal Court of Appeal refused to satisfy the lawyer's request to change the measure of restraint.
Eduard Babayan has been under arrest for more than 20 days - since July 5. He, in particular, is charged on the group brutal beating of the father of the world champion in boxing among juniors Nikolai Arutyunov Vyacheslav Arutyunov, the deliberate infliction of a serious injury that threatened his life.
To note, the Prosperous Armenia Party issued a statement stressing that the decision of the Court of Appeal is a manifestation of political persecution against the Prosperous Armenia Party. To recall, the incident occurred in Tsarukyan's "Olimpavan" complex, Vyacheslav Arutyunov, in particular, expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that Tsarukyan did not keep his word and did not release his son from the army, who became a boxing champion among juniors in 2012. This raised Tsarukyan's anger, who, based on Arutyunov's initial testimony recorded by the Special Investigative Service, struck him, and later the guards of the oligarch, led by Babayan, also joined the conflict. As a result, Arutyunov was hospitalized with severe injuries.
It is noteworthy that in the afternoon, the victim for "unknown" reasons reversed his testimony to the contrary, saying that he and Tsarukyan had warm, friendly relations, and that no one beat him, he just slipped on the wet floor, fell and was injured, just like in the film "The Diamond Arm": slipped, fell, lost the creature, woke up - plaster. Just unlike the film, the victim received not closed, but multiple open fractures. Later Chief of the Armenian Police Valery Osipyan stated that he does not believe in the version of ''slipped, fell, woke up - plaster." "If you can slip and get such injuries, then I see no problems,", Valery Osipyan joked on July 4 in an interview with reporters. According to him, if you stick to this version, it turns out that every third person can walk around the republic with such injuries. "I do not think that these testimonies of the victim correspond to reality," he said. Osipyan is inclined to the original version, which, as the head of the police pointed out, is based on the victim's testimony given to law enforcement officers immediately after the incident. It is also noteworthy that the investigation, despite the Special Investigation Service's statement on Tsarukyan's involvement in the beating, does not take any measures against the latter.