22:17, 18 June 2021

Azerbaijani GPO declares search of three businessmen-Armenian natives

The Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO). Photo by the press service of the President of Azerbaijan

Three Russian businessmen of Armenian origin have been accused of illegal supply of weapons for conducting hostilities against Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has announced.

According to the GPO, in 2001-2020, Samvel Karapetyan, the head of the "Tashir" Group of Companies; David Galustyan, the owner of "Royalsys Engineering"; and Ara Abramyan, the Director General of the KOMEX Company (also the head of the Union of Russian Armenians, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"), used passenger and cargo planes to deliver weapons to Armenia, and from there – to Nagorno-Karabakh.

The figurants of this criminal case face up to 15 years in prison.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 18, 2021 at 11:43 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Faik Medjid

Source: CK correspondent