Former NA deputy Kh. The preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings regarding the kidnapping of Kokobelyan's father, an 84-year-old resident of the village of Achajur, Tavush region, and the extortion of a particularly large-scale extortion against a former member of the National Assembly, on the part of another member of the criminal group, a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
As we have already informed, the mentioned citizen of IRI reached a preliminary agreement with S. Manukyan and a group of other persons to kidnap an 84-year-old man and to extort a particularly large sum of 3,000,000 US dollars from his relatives.
Being in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in order to carry out their actions as covertly as possible and to reduce the risks of being discovered later, the citizen of Iran turned to his relative living in Iran to open a digital currency wallet to receive the above-mentioned amount in the form of cryptocurrency, citing that he could not do it personally.
After providing Bitcoin cryptocurrency account-wallet data, the latter also obtained a foreign Ukrainian virtual phone number with which he opened the "WhatsApp" mobile application at the request of an Iranian citizen. Manukyan, being in the Republic of Armenia, with the members of the criminal group in 2022. on July 27, early in the morning, they drove an "Opel" car to the house on the 1st street of Achajur settlement, Ijevan community, Tavush region, where they ambushed and waited for the 84-year-old resident of the said house.
Around 07:00, when the latter left the yard of his house, they put him in the said car against his will, closed his eyes and mouth and took him out of the village PRADO 2.7" car, taken to Tsater village of Lori marz and kept in a guest house rented from one of the residents of the same village, where T. Poghosyan and another member of the criminal group alternately, masked, until 2022. On August 2, being constantly in the mentioned house, they watched over the elderly man.
After that, S. Manukyan went to the Islamic Republic of Iran and met the aforementioned citizen of Iran. on July 29, at 09:30, the son of an elderly man, Kh. Kokobelyan was sent a message through the above-mentioned phone number, demanding 3 million dollars. In addition, they repeatedly presented ultimatums to the former deputy of the National Assembly, threatening that the latter's son would be next. "They reached an agreement through the WhatsApp application." Free the elderly man for $200,000.
After receiving 20,000 USD of the specified amount to the cryptocurrency account sent by them in advance, in 2022. On August 2, St. Manukyan returned to Armenia from Iran and A. With K., taking a "HYUNDAI SONATA 2.4" car from their relative, they left Yerevan at around 14:00 and arrived at Tsater settlement at around 14:00. P. closed the eyes of the elderly man with cotton and bandages, after which he was taken to the mentioned car and left.
On the same day, at around 5:30 p.m., in the forested area of the Dilijan-Ijevan highway, the members of the criminal group took the man out of the car, put him on a stone and left in the direction of Ijevan city, after which the relatives of the latter were informed of his location by message and demanded the other part of the agreed amount. : Around 18:00, the 84-year-old man was found in the mentioned place.
Continuing to fulfill the agreement reached, the relatives of the latter made a transfer equivalent to another 20,000 US dollars to the aforementioned cryptocurrency account in the above-mentioned manner.
Based on the obtained sufficient facts, the citizen of the Republic of Iran was charged with Article 191, Part 2, Clause 5 and Article 258, Part 3, Clause 3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia. The materials of the criminal proceedings regarding the latter, with the indictment, were sent to the supervising prosecutor for confirmation and sent to the court.
