{"id":121482,"date":"2011-08-24T21:56:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T16:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=121482"},"modified":"2011-08-24T21:57:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T16:57:27","slug":"criminal-case-launched-in-connection-with-shots-heard-in-armenian-mps-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/08\/24\/criminal-case-launched-in-connection-with-shots-heard-in-armenian-mps-restaurant.html","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Case Launched in Connection with Shots Heard in Armenian MP&#8217;s Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As directed by General Prosecutor of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan, a criminal case was initiated today in connection with the incident on the night of Aug. 14 in the restaurant complex &#8220;Harsnaqar,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/content\/article\/24306880.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reports RFE\/RL&#8217;s Armenian service<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, citing the press service of the RA General Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, as a result of shots heard in Harsnaqar on the night of Aug. 14, two people were hospitalized. Media reported that during a wedding celebration, an altercation took place which was intercepted by Ruben Hayrapetyan&#8217;s bodyguard by the nickname of Yezidi Ashot. Local press reported that he shot and injured 2 people, one of whom was Norik Atoyan, 33, the bodyguard of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan&#8217;s brother Sashik Sargsyan.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, during a meeting with reporters, Hovsepyan said that he learned about the incident from the press and instructed his staff to check whether a criminal case had been launched or not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In any case, if there is an incident, a crime, they are preceded by certain checks,&#8221; he said, replying to RFE\/RL Armenian service&#8217;s question as to why a criminal case hadn&#8217;t been launched until now.<\/p>\n<p>To an observation by reporters that perhaps the lack of initiating a criminal case was due to the fact that the shots were heard in a restaurant owned by ruling party MP and prominent businessman Ruben Hayrapetyan, Aghvan Hovsepyan only said that he instructed his staff to look into the incident.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As directed by General Prosecutor of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan, a criminal case was initiated today in connection with the incident on the night of&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13248,31138,31137,15030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}