National Security Service of Armenia published new details on case of  criminal authority Artur Asatryan known as "Don Pipo"

ArmInfo.The National Security Service of Armenia released new details on the case of the detention of the criminal authority Artur Asatryan known as "Don Pipo".

As reported by the press center of the National Security Service of  Armenia, earlier, on May 23, 2017, a criminal case was opened into  the preparation of the murder of Artur Asatryan. Three of the four  defendants in the crime at the initial stage of the investigation  said that on May 21, 2017 they were abducted and three days were  illegally detained in various places in the city of Etchmiadzin,  where they were beaten, they were asked to confess to who the  customer of the murder was.

On June 1, 2017, a new criminal case was initiated into the abduction  of these people. During the preliminary investigation, a number of  data were received confirming the kidnapping, including a video  recording was found in the phone of one of the abductees, from which  it follows that the abductors of captive persons, voicing threats,  demanded to name of the one who ordered the murder, and the questions  were voiced by a person named Pipo.

The body that conducts the proceedings, people who were abducted and  accused of preparing the murder, many times offered to give detailed  testimony about the circumstances of the abduction, the perpetrators  and the organizers, but for one reason or another they refrained from  giving evidence and participating in investigative actions. Despite  this circumstance, after the case on the episode of the preparation  of the murder with the indictment was sent to the court, active  investigative actions regarding the kidnapping were continued, and  appropriate operational and investigative measures were also taken.  "As a result, on June 16, 2018, during a search in Arthur Asatryan's  mansion in Echmiadzin, a large number of illegally stored weapons and  ammunition were found, in particular two AK-74s loaded with 56  cartridges, one TT gun, 7.62-mm caliber loaded with 8 cartridges, a 9  mm pistol loaded with 10 cartridges, two Beretta pistols of 9 mm  caliber, loaded with 34 cartridges, a Colt drum cartridge, the SNB  press center reports. Arthur Asatryan was subjected to a drive and  detained on suspicion of committing the offense provided for in  paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 6 of Article 131 of the Criminal Code  (Abduction of three persons committed by a group of persons by prior  conspiracy, with the use of violence dangerous to life or health, or  with the threat of it and with the use of weapons or items used as  weapons) and part 2 of Article 235 (Illegal acquisition, sale,  storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, ammunition,  explosives or explosive devices committed by a group of persons by  prior conspiracy) . Within the framework of the same criminal case,  another four people were detained, who are citizens of Russia,  presumed to be Asatryan's bodyguards, who, by preliminary conspiracy  with the latter, illegally stored the weapons and ammunition they  found. "The body that is carrying out the production, in order to  ensure a comprehensive, complete and objective investigation today,  also expects that the abducted persons, however, will give exhaustive  testimony of the relative event," the RA National Security Service  said.