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YEREVAN, APRIL 3, ARMENPRESS: The Police of Russia completed the investigation of the driver of “KamAZ” Hrachya Harutyunyan’s criminal case. According to the investigation, the crash led to the deaths of 18 people took place in New Moscow by Hrachya Harutyunyan’s fault.
“The investigation over Hrachya Harutyunyan’s criminal case was completed and sent to the Prosecutor’s office,” the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow informed “Ria Novosti” about it.
Armenpress reports that during the investigation it turned out that the truck was not properly served in the result of which the brakes did not operate efficiently. According to the investigation, Harutyunyan should have known about it.
Now the truck driver is expected to spend seven years in prison, which is the maximum date for crashes in Russia, if there are two or more victims, and the guilty was sober at the time of the accident.
On July 13 at 13:00 in New Moscow, nearby the Podolsk Village, Kamaz truck came out of the second line and crashed into a bus driving from Podolsk to Kurilovo, sharing it into two parts. In the result of the car accident 18 people died and more than 30 were wounded. The driver of the truck Hrachya Harutyunyan was accused of the violation of the traffic security rules, causing the death of two or more people. Two-month detention was imposed to the Armenian. He was taken to the court in a woman’s bathrobe. On that ocassion a protest action was held in front of the Russian Embassy to Armenia, during which the protesters demanded protection of human rights and a proper attitude towards the citizen of the Republic of Armenia. On July 16 the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia Karen Andreasyan sent an official letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Lukin requesting for the protection of the dignity and other rights of Hrachya Harutyunyan.