A trial for policemen charged with RA citizen's murder has started

PanARMENIAN.Net - Saratov regional court has started a trial for 3 Saratov police agents: Korchagin, Ogoltsev, Churikov, charged with a murder and burning the victim alive, court Press Secretary, Irina Belyakova reported.



Jury trial was determined at the first sitting. Prosecutor voiced the bill of particulars and the victim's wife was interrogated.



On the night of October 28/29, 2008, the 3 policemen arrested RA citizen Armen Gasparyan and forced him to confess to having robbed gold decorations. As a matter of fact, the person arrested had not even witnessed the crime. Unable to extort confessions, they beat him to death and then moved his body to a forest plantation to burn it with petrol.
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