The “Organizer of Transportation” State Cadastre Registry as well as the capital city Moscow Department of the State Traffic Police Control of Russia have stopped a passenger bus that was illegally traveling for the Russian capital city to Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

The aforementioned is informed on the website of the said registry.

The bus, which belonged to Vagtrans LLC., was taken to an impound lot.

The company faces a fine of up to 150,000 rubles (approx. US$2,325).

Vagtrans is not registered at the Regular International Bus Travel Department of the Russian Ministry of Transport. This means even though the carrier company did not have the right to work in Russia, it continued to illegally transport passengers from Moscow to Yerevan.

To note, nine people were killed and over forty others were injured as a passenger bus, which was traveling from Moscow to Yerevan, crashed on November 3, in Tula Oblast (province) in Russia.

Russia has opened a criminal case into this bus crash, and on charges of “breaking the road traffic and vehicle operation rules.” A similar case has been filed in Armenia, too.

According to preliminary data, the bus driver, Garnik Harutyunyan, had fallen asleep at the steering wheel.

Harutyunyan has been taken into custody for two months.