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INFLUENTIAL ARMENIAN BUSINESSMAN LEVON AIRAPETYAN TO REMAIN IN DETENTION
RAPSI
Aug 15 2014
MOSCOW, August 15 (RAPSI) - The Moscow City Court on Friday upheld
the detention of 65-year-old Levon Airapetyan, deemed to be one of
the wealthiest Armenian businessmen, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.
Airapetyan is suspected of taking part in the sale of Bashneft
oil company in April 2009. The company headed by that time by Ural
Rakhimov, the son of Bashkortostan President Murtaza Rakhimov, was
sold to subsidiaries of investment holding company AFK Sistema.
Airapetyan was charged with embezzlement and money laundering.
Earlier the court arrested Bashneft stake worth 300 million rubles
(over $8.3 million).
His attorneys requested that Airapetyan be released from detention on
a no-exit pledge, recognizance of no-leave or a 30 million ruble (over
$830,000) bail. A number of celebrities, including stage directors
Mark Zakharov and Alexander Shirvindt, as well as the Head of the
Armenian Apostolic Church in Russia, suggested bailing him out.
Airapetyan took part in the court hearings via videoconference from
Moscow's Matrosskaya Tishina detention center. He said that he didn't
feel well and asked that the application be heard in absentia, but
the court ruled that his presence was necessary.
According to investigators, Airapetyan has dual citizenship and
owns real estate abroad. Notably, he has spent a lot of time in
Monaco lately.
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20140815/271918018.html
RAPSI
Aug 15 2014
MOSCOW, August 15 (RAPSI) - The Moscow City Court on Friday upheld
the detention of 65-year-old Levon Airapetyan, deemed to be one of
the wealthiest Armenian businessmen, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.
Airapetyan is suspected of taking part in the sale of Bashneft
oil company in April 2009. The company headed by that time by Ural
Rakhimov, the son of Bashkortostan President Murtaza Rakhimov, was
sold to subsidiaries of investment holding company AFK Sistema.
Airapetyan was charged with embezzlement and money laundering.
Earlier the court arrested Bashneft stake worth 300 million rubles
(over $8.3 million).
His attorneys requested that Airapetyan be released from detention on
a no-exit pledge, recognizance of no-leave or a 30 million ruble (over
$830,000) bail. A number of celebrities, including stage directors
Mark Zakharov and Alexander Shirvindt, as well as the Head of the
Armenian Apostolic Church in Russia, suggested bailing him out.
Airapetyan took part in the court hearings via videoconference from
Moscow's Matrosskaya Tishina detention center. He said that he didn't
feel well and asked that the application be heard in absentia, but
the court ruled that his presence was necessary.
According to investigators, Airapetyan has dual citizenship and
owns real estate abroad. Notably, he has spent a lot of time in
Monaco lately.
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20140815/271918018.html