Defense Minister of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan launches personnel purges at the Military Academy after Vazgen Sargsyan after cadet Haykaz Barsegyan was found hanged from a chin-up bar on the local sports ground.
According to ArmInfo's data, Head of the Academy, Major General Martin Karapetyan has already filed in his resignation and Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan has accepted it. Furthermore, the minister is firing the entire leadership of the Academy up to the heads of chairs.
The body of Haykaz Barseghyan was found hanged from a chin-up bar on the sports ground at his military unit on Jan 29 morning. Chief Military Investigation Department of the Investigation Committee has opened a criminal case based on Article 104.7.2. of the Criminal Code of Armenia (murder committed by a group of persons of organized group) after relevant examination of the spot and preparation of materials. Four cadets of the Academy have already faced murder charges: Movses Azaryan, Norik Sahakyan. Vacheh Sahakyan, Gnel Tevosyan. All the four have been arrested.
On January 31, the minister called extraordinary meeting over Barseghyan's murder. Looking into the materials of the case, the minister said that crime was a result of ill-natured relations and activity of separate officers and negligence of duties by them. Ohanyan said the murder of the cadet was a stab in the back of the men who guard the country's borders day and night.