YEREVAN. – Moscow-based Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan will celebrate his birthday on Tuesday in Monaco, reported Zhamanak daily.

“According to our information, some of Karapetyan’s godchildren—[opposition Prosperous Armenia Party ex-Chairman, MP, and oligarch] Gagik Tsarukyan and his son-in-law, the son of [Prime Minister] Hovik Abrahamyan, [as well as Minister of Transport and Communication] Gagik Beglaryan and [Ruling Republican Party of Armenia MP and businessman] Samvel Aleksanyan—have traveled to Monaco to attend the birthday [party].

“But yesterday [i.e. Monday] we learned that preparations for the festivities are halted for one day, since they returned to Armenia to attend the wake of the father of Investigative Committee Head Aghvan Hovsepyan, and the mother of former President Robert Kocharyan.

“[But] we got the news that today [i.e. Tuesday] they will be in Monaco again,” wrote Zhamanak.