YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 27, NOYAN TAPAN. The Investigative Department of the RA Prosecutor General's Office completed the investigation of the criminal case opened in connection with the murder of Tigran Petrosian, community head of the village of Dalar. NT was informed about it from the press service of the RA Prosecutor General's Office. The investigation revealed that while working as the community head of the village of Dalar (Ararat marz), G. Badalian, resident of this village, abused his official position: out of 10 million 981.7 thousand drams collected by the village administration as land tax, property tax, local duties, as well as payments from land and property lease and property alienation, he transferred 8 mln 995.5 thousand drams to the account of the village administration of the territorial treasury unit, paid 97 thousand drams (about 276 dollars) to village resident Khachik Harutyunian for garbage collection work, and embezzled the remaining money - 1 mln 891.8 thousand drams. Besides, abusing his official position, G. Badalian in 2005 collected 15 thousand kg of grain of the total cost of 1 mln 800 thousand drams from community members - against land tax, then in September of the same year, he collected 212 thousand drams for construction of a water pipe in Sarian Street of the village. Of the collected sum, he spent 400 thousand drams on the pipe construction, embezzling the remaining 1 mln 612 thousand drams. During an inventory at the village administration in December 2005, the newly elected community head Tigran Petrosian revealed violations committed by G. Badalian and informed law enforcement bodies about it, as well as in June 2006 he brought a lawsuit on nonpaid rents for leased land plots to the court of first instance of Ararat marz. G. Badalian decided to take revenge and kill T. Petrosian. At about 9:30 am August 30, 2006, G. Badalian followed in his car T. Petrosian on his way to work. Reaching the yard of the village administration's building, G. Badalian fired at T. Petrosian from his single-barreled gun four times. T. Petrosian was wounded in chest and abdomen and died on the spot. Taking into consideraion the evidence obtained, G. Badalian was charged according to Article 104 Part 2 Point 2 and Article 179 Part 3 Point 1 of the RA Criminal Code. On February 22 the criminal case was sent to the court of first instance of Ararat marz for essential examination.

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