YEREVAN, MARCH 23, NOYAN TAPAN. According to Aravot daily's March 23 publication, RA National Security Service Lieutenant-Colonel Yuri Wolfson, defendant on a case examined the day before at Avan and Nor Nork communities' first instance court, stated that part of arms found at his apartment after searching it, which was not registered, is connected with Shahen Hovasapian's murder. Commenting upon this statement at Noyan Tapan correspondent's request, RA Prosecutor General's Spokesperson Sona Truzian considered it groundless. In her words, with this statement the defendant wants to drag out the trial on the case instituted against him. To recap, Shahen Hovasapian, Head of Investigation Department of RA State Tax Service, was killed on September 6, 2006 and the protocol of search at Y. Wolfson's apartment was made up on September 16, 2005.

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