10/10/2018 14:30
Russia-based Armenian businessman poisoned in jail: attorney
Russian Investigative Committee will double-check the death circumstances of Russia-based Armenian businessman Levon Hayrapetyan in Moscow jail in 2017, Russian mass media report.
Komerssant had an interview with attorney Karen Nersesyan who said that on October 16, 2017 two acquaintances passed medicine to Hayrapetyan through the servicemen of the penitentiary. After taking them Hayrapetyan died very quickly.
“The day before his death Hayrapetyan called his brother in Armenia and his friend, Primate of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Church Archbishop Pargev and said that he had been poisoned,” the attorney said, adding that Hayrapetyan also said that he would not live long and asked to be buried without forensic expertise. The doctors of the penitentiary though registered that he died of heart failure.
The attorney said Hayrapetyan’s relatives might be interested in his death. “Hayrapetyan’s heritage makes 100 million USD including movable and real estate. If Hayrapetyan was freed he could have disinherit someone from his family due to certain conflicts in the family which was not in their interests,” Nersesyan explained.
The attorney applied to prosecutor’s office, and the investigative group is starting additional examination of the circumstances of the death of the businessman.
Levon Hayrapetyan died on October 18, 2017, in jail, after 4 years imprisonment.