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CZECH COURT CONFIRMS VERDICT FOR RUSSIAN-SPEAKING MURDERER
CTK National News Wire, Czech Rep.
October 15, 2013 Tuesday 2:17 PM (Central European Time)
Prague Oct 15 (CTK)
The High Court in Prague today definitively upheld the 22-year prison
sentence for Andranik Soghoyan, a Russian-language mafia boss, in
absentia for ordering the murder of an Armenian businessman.
The appeals court also upheld the prison sentences of 12 to 18 years
for four accomplices of his.
According to the indictment, Soghoyan, who is staying abroad now,
ordered and organised the murder in 2007, but the hired assassin
killed a wrong man and stabbed another one by mistake.
The lower level court acquitted Soghoyan twice in the past, but the
case was repeatedly returned to it by the appeals court.
The five defendants were only convicted after a different judge was
put in charge of the case.
According to the indictment, Soghoyan and his accomplice Gilani Aliyev
agreed to have the Armenian businessman killed.
Asked to organise the murder, Magomed Aliyev hired Ukrainian Timur
Tretyakov whom he brought to Prague's central Wenceslas Square on
November 13, 2007, where Tretyakov attacked another Armenian man with
a knife.
A quick medical intervention then saved the man's life.
For another attempt two weeks later, Tretyakov received a firearm
from Arsen Arakelyan, while Arsen Kakosyan told him where the victim
lived and what car it used.
However, Tretyakov failed again, shooting at a wrong victim by
mistake. He killed a 25-year-old man, a father of two children,
who by coincidence drove the same type of car that the victim was
supposed to drive.
Tretyakov was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
From: A. Papazian
CTK National News Wire, Czech Rep.
October 15, 2013 Tuesday 2:17 PM (Central European Time)
Prague Oct 15 (CTK)
The High Court in Prague today definitively upheld the 22-year prison
sentence for Andranik Soghoyan, a Russian-language mafia boss, in
absentia for ordering the murder of an Armenian businessman.
The appeals court also upheld the prison sentences of 12 to 18 years
for four accomplices of his.
According to the indictment, Soghoyan, who is staying abroad now,
ordered and organised the murder in 2007, but the hired assassin
killed a wrong man and stabbed another one by mistake.
The lower level court acquitted Soghoyan twice in the past, but the
case was repeatedly returned to it by the appeals court.
The five defendants were only convicted after a different judge was
put in charge of the case.
According to the indictment, Soghoyan and his accomplice Gilani Aliyev
agreed to have the Armenian businessman killed.
Asked to organise the murder, Magomed Aliyev hired Ukrainian Timur
Tretyakov whom he brought to Prague's central Wenceslas Square on
November 13, 2007, where Tretyakov attacked another Armenian man with
a knife.
A quick medical intervention then saved the man's life.
For another attempt two weeks later, Tretyakov received a firearm
from Arsen Arakelyan, while Arsen Kakosyan told him where the victim
lived and what car it used.
However, Tretyakov failed again, shooting at a wrong victim by
mistake. He killed a 25-year-old man, a father of two children,
who by coincidence drove the same type of car that the victim was
supposed to drive.
Tretyakov was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
From: A. Papazian