YEREVAN. May 10 (Interfax) - A court in Yerevan has acquitted Igor Khachaturov, son of former Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Yury Khachaturov, charged with violence against a police officer.
Judge Tatevik Grigoryan pronounced the sentence on Wednesday, Armenian media said.
Igor Khachaturov was charged with resorting to violence against a police officer during an opposition protest on May 17, 2022. He was an active participant in the opposition demonstrations demanding Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's resignation.
Another son of the former CSTO secretary general, former commander of the Armenian Armed Forces' Third Army Corps Maj. Gen. Grigory Khachaturov, is under arrest as part of the Armenian National Security Service's investigation into largescale laundering of money and illegally procured assets.