Son of RA defender minister`s advisor arrested in - media 

ArmInfo.  The head of the investigative group created by the decision of the head of the Kotayk regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia Hovhannes Chalabyan, senior investigator for especially important cases of the Nairi investigative department of the RA Investigative Committee Sahak Babakhanyan and two  investigators filed a petition to the Criminal Court of General  Jurisdiction of the Kotayk region on choosing a preventive measure in  the form of detention for a period of two months against three  persons who committed hooliganism and murder with the use of a  firearm on August 14 under the bridge near the house of a criminal  authority nicknamed "Fat Rustam" in the settlement of Proshyan in the  Kotayk region of Armenia. This was reported by the crime chronicle  website Shamshyan.com.

As the source notes, after holding closed court hearings, the court  granted the investigator's motion, and the said persons were  arrested, after which they were transferred from the courtroom to the  Nubarashen Penitentiary Institution of the Penitentiary Service of  the RA Ministry of Justice.

One of the detainees is Artashes Tonoyan, a resident of the Kotayk  region, whose father is a general by rank and adviser to the RA  Minister of Defense Suren Papikyan.

Recall that on August 14, a shooting took place in the Kotayk region,  as a result of which a citizen with a gunshot wound was taken to the  Armenia Medical Center, who subsequently died. While doctors were  fighting for his life, criminal and municipal police officers found  out that he had been taken to the hospital from the village of  Proshyan in the Kotayk region - from a section of the  Yerevan-Ashtarak highway, not far from the house of crime boss Rustam  Stepanyan, known by the nickname "Fat Rustam". Five spent cartridges  were found at the scene of the shooting. A criminal case was opened  in the Nairi Investigation Department on the grounds of "attempted  murder". The deceased was 24-year-old Mamikon D., a resident of the  village of Proshyan, who had not previously been involved in any  criminal stories and was considered a modest and decent young man in  the village.