MOSCOW. – Staff members of the Armenian embassy in Moscow will visit Armenian driver Hrachya Harutyunyan, who is serving a prison sentence in Russia, in the latter half of April, the embassy informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
The objective of this visit will be to get familiarized with the state of Harutyunyan’s health and his prison conditions.
“We can see Hrachya Harutyunyan two weeks after informing the Russian side of our visit,” the embassy informed.
Armenian citizen Hrachya Harutyunyan had pleaded guilty to causing a major traffic accident in Russia. The truck he was driving had crashed into a passenger bus in July 2013, outside capital city Moscow. The impact of the crash was so powerful that the bus, which was carrying 64 passengers, had split in two. The accident had claimed 18 lives and injured more than 40 others.
In April 2015, a Moscow district court sentenced Harutyunyan to 6 years and 9 months in prison on charges of violating traffic and vehicle operation rules and causing death. And the Moscow Municipal Court upheld this verdict.
The Armenian side, however, is seeking to have Hrachya Harutyunyan extradited to Armenia.
