Armenian Ombudsman appealed to the Office of Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights over Hayrapetyan case
RA Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan officially appealed to the Office f Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights asking to improve the cell conditions, which pose a threat to Harrapetyan’s health, as well as providing necessary medical assistance to him, RA Ombudsman’s office reports in a released statement.
The Ombudsman expressed concern over Hayrapetyan’s detention conditions as the latter is in need of daily medical assistance and care which otherwise will be of major threat to his health and life.
Arman Tatoyan asked the Russia’s relevant bodies to take necessary means to provide Levon Hayrapetyan with proper medical help and improve conditions threatening Hayrapetyan’s health, reads the statement.
To remind, Levon Hayrapetyan, a prominent Armenian businessman living in Russia, was found guilty for embezzlement of $700,000 by Zamoskvoretsky District Court verdict issued on April 14.
Hayrapetyan had been with embezzling $700,000 from Bashkistan’s senator Igor Izmestyev who is currently serving a life term for terrorism. The businessman has repeatedly pleaded not guilty. According to his lawyer, the case had been framed up.
Earlier the prosecutor asked the court to sentence Hayraperyan to 7 years in prison
Hayrapetyan has been under house arrest since July 17, 2014. He was charged with two counts of embezzlement: those of the funds sold by the company Bashneft, and an amount of $700,000, which he allegedly received from the mother of Igor Izmestev, a former senator of Bashkortostan. Later on the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation did not confirm the charges in the first case and only the episode of embezzlement of funds from former senator Igor Izmestev remained under criminal investigation.