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The specialists of the Yerevan Zoo along with Environmental Protection and Mining Inspection Body of the Ministry of Nature Protection as well as the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC) headed to Echmiadzin to provide medical aid to the animals kept in the private Zoo of arrested General Manvel Grigoryan.

At the instruction of the Yerevan Deputy Mayor Aram Sukiasyan the specialists will also decide on the possibility of the transfer the animals to the Yerevan Zoo to properly ensure the animals’ future care.

To remind, the private zoo containing bears, tigers and other wild animals
was revealed during the search of Grigoryan’s villa on June 16 by the National Security Service (NSS) officers.

Grigoryan, a retired army general and chairman of the Yerkrapah Volunteer Union, was arrested on 16 June after security officers found and confiscated a large quantity of “illegally acquired” arms and ammunition, as well as explosives in his villa.

He is also suspected of appropriating the goods, including food, hygiene items, medicine and clothing sent to the servicemen as assistance during the 2016 April War.