Another agency to investigate Maro Guloyan’s case

“On June 17, 2013 Lusine Minasian – the representative the legal successor of victim Maro Guloyan – and Coalition against Women’s Violence filed an application to the Prosecutor General’s Office, complaining about the illegal dismissal of Maro Guloyan’s case.

On June 24 Armenian Prosecutor General took a decision about revocation of the RA Police Kotayk regional investigation department’s decision about dismissal of the criminal case of Maro Guloyan’s suspicious suicide.

On July 11 the legal successor’s representative Ms. Lusine Minasian filed a new application to the Prosecutor General’s Office, with the request to transfer the investigation of the case to Yerevan. On July 26, based on the letter of Armenia’s Deputy Prosecutor General, the case was sent to the head of the Main Investigation Department of the Police Gagik Hambartsumian with the aim of instructing another investigatory agency to conduct a preliminary investigation.

Expressing deep gratitude to Prosecutor General’s Office for ensuring control over the legality of the preliminary investigation, the aggrieved party hopes that the new investigatory agency will conduct an impartial and professional investigation into Maro Giloyan’s death under suspicious circumstances, without flagrant violations of the law,” Lusine Minasian’s statement reads.