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On October 20, police chief of Armenia's Ararat province Arsen Abrahamyan (pictured), along with his driver and an officer of the criminal investigation department, beat up lieutenant Yesayi Eloyan, a criminalist of the regional police unit, Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper reports, citing own sources.
“According to verified data, the assault took place at the criminalist's office and was initiated by the police chief's driver, Edgar, who was soon joined by a criminal investigation department employee named Arsen. Chief Abrahamyan, for his part, rushed to the noise, then proceeded to beat Eloyan,” the paper writes.
The reason the criminalist was beaten up, Haykakan Zhamanak continues, is that he had been ordered to take the license plates of Arsen Abrahamyan's new car, which he had received as a gift, to the police chief's office but failed to do it quickly enough. Speaking to the paper's reporter on Monday, however, Eloyan denied that he had been subjected to physical assault, insisting that the newspaper was spreading misinformation.
Note, Ararat police chief Arsen Abrahamyan is the nephew of former Armenian prime minister Hovik Abrahamyan.