ArmInfo.On March 9, the court granted the motion for the arrest of a prominent businessman Samvel Mayrapetyan. This was reported by the press service of the Special Investigation Service of Armenia.
To recall, last week Mayrapetyan, who was under investigation, was put on the wanted list. Earlier, he was allowed to go abroad for treatment. Meanwhile, he did not return to the republic and did not appear for a call to the investigating authority, and his guarantors were also unable to ensure his appearance in the SIS. The guarantors of Mayrapetyan were a neurosurgeon, Professor Ruben Fanarjyan and Head of the Information System of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, press secretary of the Supreme Patriarch Garegin II Priest Vahram Melikyan, who paid 15 million drams each. The investigator decided to send this amount to the state treasury.
To recall, Mayrapetyan is accused of complicity in receiving a bribe in the amount of $ 7 million. According to entrepreneur Silva Hambartsumyan, she transferred this amount to Mayrapetyan so that he would transfer it to former presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, as well as former head of the presidential administration Armen Gevorgyan .