MOSCOW. – Three Armenians were sentenced in Russia’s Tyumen region for killing an old woman for money.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, Gevorg Bazoyan, 26, learnt that grandmother of his girlfriend has money savings. He and two other Armenians Suren Melkonyan and Askanaz Poghosyan, 28, beat the old woman to death and stole about $92 on August 16.

Poghosyan and Melkonyan were arrested on August 19, while Bazoyan was arrested on the same day. The court examined the case and sentenced Bazoyan and Melkonyan to 12 and 9.5 years of imprisonment respectively, while Poghosyan was sentenced to 3 years in jail.