Gagik Dzhangiryan had on him a Czech-made pistol with 15 cartridges, while his fellow travellers had a Makarov pistol with cartridges and a rifle.

Former Armenian Deputy Prosecutor-General Gagik Dzhangiryan was brought to police on Saturday evening, Itar-Tass learnt at the public relations service of the Armenian police department. Its report notes that the organised crime division of the Armenian police department received information that armed people whose aim is to destabilise the situation in the Armenian capital, are driving in two cars along the Bagarshapat-Yerevan highway. Officers of the organised crime division stopped a BMW and Lada cars at around 23.00. People in the cars, including Dzhangiryan and his brother, offered resistance. All of them were brought to the organised crime division.
Dzhangiryan had on him a Czech-made pistol with 15 cartridges, while his fellow travellers had a Makarov pistol with cartridges and a rifle.
Police officers found in the cars a shotgun, a loaded Browning pistol, a dagger, handcuffs and a bulletproof vest. A criminal case was instituted in connection with this incident. The investigation is conducted by the Main Investigation Police Department of the Republican Interior Ministry. On Saturday morning, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan issued a decree, removing Dzhangiryan from his post and depriving him of his rank of state justice adviser.
The Prosecutor-General’s Office reported that Dzhangiryan had broken up requirements of the law on the prosecutor’s office, under which “prosecutors are forbidden to be party members and to go in for politics in any other way”. “Under any circumstances, a prosecutor is duty-bound to display political restraint and neutrality,” the Prosecutor-General’s Office noted.
Dzhangiryan had participated in and addressed a rally of the Armenian opposition.