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ESTONIAN PROSECUTOR SEEKS 15 YEARS IN JAIL FOR ACCUSED KILLER OF TWO ARMENIANS
Baltic News Service / - BNS
April 2, 2013 Tuesday 12:19 PM EET
TALLINN, Apr 02, BNS - During a trial in the Harju regional court on
Tuesday, the prosecution demanded 15 years in jail as punishment for
Vano Tumanjan, accused of the murder of two ethnic Armenian businessmen
in Estonia in December 1997.
Juri Kasesalu, specialized prosecutor of the North regional
prosecutor's office, sought a 15-year jail term for the 40-year-old
defendant for killing of two persons under aggravating circumstances,
the maximum punishment set forth for the said crime under the Penal
Code valid at the time when the crimes were committed.
The defense wants Tumanjan to be sentenced to eight years, the minimum
punishment for the same crime.
The court is scheduled to announce its verdict on May 15.
Tumanjan pleaded guilty in the trial that started on March 26.
While the crimes ascribed to Tumanjan were committed back in 1997,
Tumanjan could not be tried earlier because he served an eight-year
sentence for robbery in Russia until fall 2012, after which he was
handed over to Estonia.
Tumanjan is accused of the murder of Razmik Sarg-Sarkisjan, 49, and
of Karen Oganesjan, 41, on the night before December 28, 1997. The
security police have described Sarg-Sarkisjan as one of the leaders
of the criminal grouping of Armenians in Estonia at the time.
The businessmen's bodies were found slightly after midnight in a
Mercedes car that had hit a wall in Vihuri Street in Tallinn's Kopli
aera. The victims had been shot from the back seat into the back of
the head from two pistols of different brands -- a Makarov and a TT.
In accordance with an investigation version also Varuzan Manukjan took
part in the murder. Four months later Manukjan attempted to kill Tigran
Nahapetjan, an Armenian who kept a shaslyk place in Tallinn, but was
killed himself instead by a bullet shot by Nahapetjan from his pistol.
Nahapetjan, 35, was killed by pistol shots into the back in Mahtra
Street in Tallinn in early August 2003. The murderer has not been
caught.
From: A. Papazian
Baltic News Service / - BNS
April 2, 2013 Tuesday 12:19 PM EET
TALLINN, Apr 02, BNS - During a trial in the Harju regional court on
Tuesday, the prosecution demanded 15 years in jail as punishment for
Vano Tumanjan, accused of the murder of two ethnic Armenian businessmen
in Estonia in December 1997.
Juri Kasesalu, specialized prosecutor of the North regional
prosecutor's office, sought a 15-year jail term for the 40-year-old
defendant for killing of two persons under aggravating circumstances,
the maximum punishment set forth for the said crime under the Penal
Code valid at the time when the crimes were committed.
The defense wants Tumanjan to be sentenced to eight years, the minimum
punishment for the same crime.
The court is scheduled to announce its verdict on May 15.
Tumanjan pleaded guilty in the trial that started on March 26.
While the crimes ascribed to Tumanjan were committed back in 1997,
Tumanjan could not be tried earlier because he served an eight-year
sentence for robbery in Russia until fall 2012, after which he was
handed over to Estonia.
Tumanjan is accused of the murder of Razmik Sarg-Sarkisjan, 49, and
of Karen Oganesjan, 41, on the night before December 28, 1997. The
security police have described Sarg-Sarkisjan as one of the leaders
of the criminal grouping of Armenians in Estonia at the time.
The businessmen's bodies were found slightly after midnight in a
Mercedes car that had hit a wall in Vihuri Street in Tallinn's Kopli
aera. The victims had been shot from the back seat into the back of
the head from two pistols of different brands -- a Makarov and a TT.
In accordance with an investigation version also Varuzan Manukjan took
part in the murder. Four months later Manukjan attempted to kill Tigran
Nahapetjan, an Armenian who kept a shaslyk place in Tallinn, but was
killed himself instead by a bullet shot by Nahapetjan from his pistol.
Nahapetjan, 35, was killed by pistol shots into the back in Mahtra
Street in Tallinn in early August 2003. The murderer has not been
caught.
From: A. Papazian