Tweet
YEREVAN UNDERWORLD LEADER THREATENS TO KIDNAP VANO'S SON, SIRUNYAN TELLS THE STORY
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/07/25/94352/
July 25, 2012 17:36
Did you close streets during Vano Siradeghyan's tenure, did you
impede traffic with an escort, terrify pedestrians with horns, when
Vano Siradeghyan went somewhere? In response to this question of
www.aravot.am, Suren Sirunyan, the former chief of his security said,
"At that time, there were no such things. There were just flashers,
which we put on the cars, that's all. We always accompanied Vano in
two cars, at most, sometimes, in one."
In response to our observation that there were people who had seen
what a huge escort had accompanied Suren Khachatryan, the governor
of Syunik, to the National Assembly, it had closed whole Demirchyan
Street, in 12 cars, Suren Sirunyan said, "Perhaps, Suren Khachatryan
wants to show his friends' cars in Yerevan or his friends want to
show that Suren Khchatryan has a lot of friends. Otherwise, it is
pointless."
We inquired whether he would like to be someone's bodyguard today,
if he was offered a high salary, he assured that he had received
many offers, "How do you think it will be after working for Vano
Siradeghyan? I have received a lot of offers. I cannot say from whom.
I was offered a job in the state apparatus in 2000, also after that
there have been offers to work for different people as a bodyguard,
a chief of security, but I refused, because if there had been a man
after Vano Siradeghyan, if I had felt that this man was bigger than
Vano Siradeghyan, perhaps I would have agreed."
According to S. Sirunyan, it doesn't matter that Vano Siradeghyan is
not around now and he has no job, "I would never try to turn the work
he has done into nothing."
In response to our question whether there had been a case at the time,
when he was the chief of Vano Siradeghyan's security, that someone
would like to approach his boss and he would pinion him and put him
in the car, he said, "Perhaps, it is hard to believe, but no.
There were many cases of defending him. There is a story about Vano
Siradeghyan - when one of Yerevan underworld leaders was arrested,
we received a letter that if that person had not been released,
they would have kidnapped Vano Siradeghyan's son. We received that
unequivocal letter; they gave the letter to me. Since one of the sons
was by my side, we first of all tried to guarantee the security of
the other one immediately, then I reported to Vano Siradehyan. After
reading the letter, he just laughed, dropped the letter and didn't
treat it seriously. Only after 15 minutes had passed, he said to
me that two of us only - the other guys would stay at the office -
would go to such-and-such place. It was the place where the given
underworld leader lived and we knew that the road to that place was
closed. I am talking about the beginning of 1995. We went there,
there were 300 people there; they had closed the street. Only Vano
Siradeghyan and I went. When we got to the place, only 12 people
out of 300 stayed there. Eventually, they asked Vano Siradeghyan to
meet them halfway, in order that this underworld leader got as mild
a punishment as possible. Not to release him, but to impose a mild
punishment. They confiscated two guns from that person."
Suren Sirunyan told that story to show how selflessly bodyguards
should really work.
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/07/25/94352/
July 25, 2012 17:36
Did you close streets during Vano Siradeghyan's tenure, did you
impede traffic with an escort, terrify pedestrians with horns, when
Vano Siradeghyan went somewhere? In response to this question of
www.aravot.am, Suren Sirunyan, the former chief of his security said,
"At that time, there were no such things. There were just flashers,
which we put on the cars, that's all. We always accompanied Vano in
two cars, at most, sometimes, in one."
In response to our observation that there were people who had seen
what a huge escort had accompanied Suren Khachatryan, the governor
of Syunik, to the National Assembly, it had closed whole Demirchyan
Street, in 12 cars, Suren Sirunyan said, "Perhaps, Suren Khachatryan
wants to show his friends' cars in Yerevan or his friends want to
show that Suren Khchatryan has a lot of friends. Otherwise, it is
pointless."
We inquired whether he would like to be someone's bodyguard today,
if he was offered a high salary, he assured that he had received
many offers, "How do you think it will be after working for Vano
Siradeghyan? I have received a lot of offers. I cannot say from whom.
I was offered a job in the state apparatus in 2000, also after that
there have been offers to work for different people as a bodyguard,
a chief of security, but I refused, because if there had been a man
after Vano Siradeghyan, if I had felt that this man was bigger than
Vano Siradeghyan, perhaps I would have agreed."
According to S. Sirunyan, it doesn't matter that Vano Siradeghyan is
not around now and he has no job, "I would never try to turn the work
he has done into nothing."
In response to our question whether there had been a case at the time,
when he was the chief of Vano Siradeghyan's security, that someone
would like to approach his boss and he would pinion him and put him
in the car, he said, "Perhaps, it is hard to believe, but no.
There were many cases of defending him. There is a story about Vano
Siradeghyan - when one of Yerevan underworld leaders was arrested,
we received a letter that if that person had not been released,
they would have kidnapped Vano Siradeghyan's son. We received that
unequivocal letter; they gave the letter to me. Since one of the sons
was by my side, we first of all tried to guarantee the security of
the other one immediately, then I reported to Vano Siradehyan. After
reading the letter, he just laughed, dropped the letter and didn't
treat it seriously. Only after 15 minutes had passed, he said to
me that two of us only - the other guys would stay at the office -
would go to such-and-such place. It was the place where the given
underworld leader lived and we knew that the road to that place was
closed. I am talking about the beginning of 1995. We went there,
there were 300 people there; they had closed the street. Only Vano
Siradeghyan and I went. When we got to the place, only 12 people
out of 300 stayed there. Eventually, they asked Vano Siradeghyan to
meet them halfway, in order that this underworld leader got as mild
a punishment as possible. Not to release him, but to impose a mild
punishment. They confiscated two guns from that person."
Suren Sirunyan told that story to show how selflessly bodyguards
should really work.