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By the end of the investigation on the case of the murder of the son of the former Head of Malatia-Sebastia Community Vahan Zatikyan, Sedrak Zatikyan the Police provided the case materials to the parties. As the reporter of ‘Pastinfo was informed by the Public Relations and Information Department of the RA Police the preliminary investigation body will make the decision on the deadlines of getting familiar with the case materials based on the relevant suggestions of the lawyers.

As a result of the preliminary investigation that lasted 11 months a change was made, i.e. the charge was eased, in the punishment of Stepan Hakobyan accused of ordering the murder of the former Head of Malatia-Sebastia Community Vahan Zatikyan, Sedrak Zatikyan, born 1980. He was only charged in ordering the murder with reference to the Article 104, Section 2, Clause 8, i.e. a murder based on mercenary motives, order, as well as accompanied by blackmailing, brigandage or banditism.

The accused was previously charged with reference to the Article 104, Section 1, Clauses 6 and 7 of the RA Criminal Code, a murder dangerous for the life of many people, a murder by a group of people or an organized group of two or more people.

Sedrak Zatikyan was killed on June 22, 2006 on Sebastiya Street. A passerby Karine Sargsyan, a mother of three children, was also accidentally killed.

Let us recall that on December 14 last year the nephew of the former RA MP Hakob Hakobyan, Stepan Hakobyan, born 1978, was arrested for organizing the murder. S. Hakobyan under prosecution since 2006 was arrested on the Kievyan bridge when he was driving his father, Simon Hakobyan’s ‘Lexus’ car. He was imprisoned in December 2011.