RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN BUSINESSMAN’S ARREST LINKED TO OIL BUSINESS – OPINION
13:46 * 19.07.14
The arrest of Levon Hayrapetyan, the affluent Russian-Armenian
businessman held by Moscow police upon return from Monaco earlier this
week, is linked to an oil business, according to an Armenian pollster.
“It has to do with Russia’s oil business whose owners are normally
Turkic-speaking nations. That’s a diaspora campaign of two countries,
Armenia and Azerbaijan. So they will not let an Armenian go into that,”
Aharon Adibekyan told reporters on Saturday.
He considered the arrest somewhat ridiculous, noting that the case
in which Hayrapetyan was spotted has a history of ten years.
David Sanasaryan, the opposition Heritage party’s press secretary,
pointed out to Soviet-style Chekist methods (when information is kept
in secret as long as it isn’t in anybody’s interests). “I don’t know,
of course, what Levon Hayrapetyan was involved in, but I am aware of
the important things he did in Karabakh. Levon Hayrapetyan was among
those people who strengthen Artsakh, its army and economy. He’s one of
the rare wealthy people I haven’t heard anything bad about,” he noted.
Armenian News – Tert.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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