Criminal case on assassination attempt involving Serzh Sargsyan`s  nephew reopened 

ArmInfo. Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has reopened the criminal case on infliction of serious bodily injury out of negligence. 

As the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office informs, a  new preliminary investigation will be carried out. Thus, according to  the case materials, on April 1, 2007, in Yerevan, at the crossroad of  Tumanyan-Nalbandyan streets, a resident of Yerevan D. Simonyan (born  in 1984), received a gunshot wound and was taken to hospital. On the  same day, A. Ghevondyan appeared in the police, introduced the Sig  Sauer pistol and 6 patrons, stating that he had found the pistol near  the kindergarten near their house and, because of careless handling  of the weapon, fired, causing physical injuries to his friend D.  Simonyan.  As a result, a criminal case was opened under Article 120  of the RA Criminal Code.  Based on the facts obtained by the  preliminary investigation, it was revealed that D. Simonyan was  injured by negligence of A. Ghevondyan. And considering that D.  Simonyan reconciled with the latter, on May 28, 2007 this case was  suspended, given the absence of a complaint from the victim. It was  decided not to prosecute A. Ghevondyan, and to close the case.  On  June 29 2018 Simonyan submitted a statement to the Armenian  Prosecutor General's Office.  In the statement, in particular, he  notes that it was not Arthur Ghevondyan who shot him, but A. Sargsyan  (the son of the third president Serzh Sargsyan's younger brother  Sashik Sargsyan). On that day, Simonyan had a quarrel with his friend  Ghevondyan, who was under influence of drugs. Sargsyan began to  threaten to kill Simonyan, then shot him on his belly from his own  pistol. Ghevondyan managed to take the pistol.  Sargsyan's borther N.  Sargsyan learnt about the incident and delivered Simonyan to  hospital. After Simonyan recovered himself the police officers stated  that it was Ghevondyan who shot him and the pistol was found near  kindergarten.  A. and N. Sargsyans threatened Simonyan that if he  does not confirm these testimonies, he will not live long.  Considering that new circumstances were discovered, the Prosecutor's  Office of Armenia decided to open a criminal case. To investigate all  the circumstances, the case was sent to the Investigative Committee  of Armenia.