CTK National News Wire, Czech Rep
October 15, 2012 Monday 3:28 PM (Central European Time)
Prague court again cancels alleged Russian mafia boss’s acquittal
Prague Oct 15 (CTK)
The Prague High Court has for the second time cancelled a verdict
acquitting alleged Russian-speaking mafia boss Andranik Soghoyan and
four other men, charged with organising the murder of a businessman,
and it returned the case to a lower level court for reappraisal.
The news was released on the court’s website, but the official
decision has not yet been issued in written form. Prague High Court
spokesman Jan Fort said the case was decided behind closed doors on
October 10.
The Prague Municipal Court will therefore deal with the Soghoyan case
once again. Last April, the court concluded that the charges were not
proved and it acquitted the five foreigners.
Soghoyan, known as “vor v zakone” (thief in law) which is the Russian
term for mafia bosses, allegedly ordered the murder in 2007, but the
hired murderer killed someone else by mistake and stabbed another man
in Prague’s Wenceslas Square. The contract killer was sent to prison
for 22 years.
After his first acquittal in late 2010 Soghoyan was released from
custody and left abroad.
Soghoyan is suspected of having ordered in 2007 the murder of the
Armenian businessman in order to intimidate the Armenian community in
Prague and gain influence on the Chechen community.
The other suspects are Chechens Gilani Aliyev and Magomed Aliyev and
Armenians Arsen Kakosyan and Roman Melkonyan. They all plead innocent.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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