Motion filed for extention of Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel  Karapetyan`s arrest 

ArmInfo. A motion has been filed to extend the arrest of Tashir Group President Samvel Karapetyan, the Karapetyan Defense Council reports.

It is noted that the motion will be considered on August 14 at 17:30  in the Anti-Corruption Court.

Philanthropist and president of Tashir Group Samvel Karapetyan was  detained on the night of June 18 in Yerevan by law enforcement  agencies of Armenia after he expressed support for the Armenian  Apostolic Church. In response, this was followed by open threats from  the Prime Minister. On the night of June 19, the Yerevan Court of  General Jurisdiction arrested Samvel Karapetyan for two months. He is  being held in the Yerevan-Kentron Penitentiary (the well-known "KGB  basement" in the building of the National Security Service of  Armenia). He is accused of publicly calling for the seizure of power  in the country. This was followed by the adoption by the RA  Parliament of a package of legislative amendments aimed at  nationalizing the company owned by the Tashir Group, and on  July 18, by the decision of the head of the Public Services  Regulatory Commission, Romanos Petrosyan was appointed as the  temporary manager of Elsety within the framework of the  administrative proceedings and the application of preventive measures  against ESA. Petrosyan's powers will remain in effect until the act  on the results of the administrative proceedings comes into force.

On July 16, Karapetyan's defense reported that instead of terminating  the criminal proceedings and lifting the arrest, the well-known  businessman and philanthropist Samvel Karapetyan was recently brought  a clearly unfounded new charge of "money laundering as a result of  the activities of several companies" without any data