RUSSIA KEEPS ARMENIAN BUSINESSMAN AYRAPETYAN UNDER ARREST

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Aug 15 2014

15 August 2014 – 2:14pm

The Moscow City Court has left Armenian businessman Levon Ayrapetyan
under arrest, as originally decided by the Basmanny Court, ITAR-TASS
reports.

Ayrapetyan’s lawyers wanted their client released from the
investigative detention center for travel restrictions or a bail of
30 million rubles. Famous Russian cultural figures Mark Zakharov and
Alexander Shirvindt and the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church in
Russia vouched for the release of Ayrapetyan.

The suspect took part in video questioning from the Matrosskaya
Tishina Jail. He said that he was in bad health condition.

According to investigators Ayrapetyan has dual citizenship and owns
real estate in Monaco. Investigators suspect him of wasteful spending
and laundering of money.

From: Baghdasarian