On March 5 the PR and Information Department of the RA Police announced that "as a result of operative investigative measures taken, the assassination of the Chairman of the Council of the RA Public TV and Radio Company Tigran Naghdalian, committed on December 28, 2002, was disclosed". The well-known journalist was killed with a shot at his head as he was leaving the entrance of his parents’ home in Yerevan (see details in YPC Weekly Newsletter, December 29, 2002, and January 1-17, 2003).
According to the press release of the Department, the investigative group arrested six participants in the crime, among them being both the immediate implementers of the crime and other members of the group. "TT" gun # VB-265, from which, as the ballistic study showed, the murder was committed, was confiscated. The law and order bodies also inform that the other persons involved in the crime are announced wanted. The RA General Prosecutor’s Office is in charge of the investigation.
At the same time the law and order bodies refuse to provide more detailed information as to the identities of the arrested persons and the motives of this crime which has shaken the public of the country and is subject for close attention of the Armenian media.
