Chairman of Armeconombank Board of Directors Saribek Sukiasyan, brother of Khachatour Sukiasyan, and Director of “Ararat” mall Artash Stepanyan were released on their own recognizance. Sukisyan’s lawyer Loussine Sahakyan told NEWS.am.

February 12, Sukiasyan and Stepanyan were arrested, taken to the Erebuni district Police department in Yerevan and charged with allegedly obtaining Gor Davtyan’s signature by threatening to kill him. According to Oppositional representatives, the authorities tried to reckon with the businessman.

At the 2008 presidential elections the former RA MP Khachatour Sukiasyan was openly supporting the Opposition candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Thereupon, after the March 1-2, 2008, events he had been on the list of wanteds.

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