Kingpin Andranik Soghoyan transferred to Nubarashen penitentiary
A Court of Yerevan has ordered the arrest of Armenian gangster, convicted ‘thief in law’ Andranik Soghoyan (aka Zap) who was detained in Yerevan on October 28. The petition for his arrest was filed by the Prosecutor General's Office. Soghoyan will remain in custody for 30 days. In February 2013, the High Court in Prague upheld a 22-year prison sentence for Andranik Soghoyan, who was convicted of the attempted murder of another Armenian in 2007. According to the indictment, he and his accomplices Gilani and Magomed Aliyev hired Ukrainian Timur Tretyakov, an assassin of bloody inclinations but poor aim. The would-be hitman stabbed one wrong man in Wenceslas Square (fortunately his life was saved by medical intervention). Then Soghoyan’s henchmen Arsen Kakosyan and Arsen Arakelyan gave him directions to the target’s house and a gun, respectively. Tretyakov managed to shoot and kill another innocent bystander, in this case a man who drove the same luxury Bentley car as the presumed victim. Tretyakov, too, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Soghoyan and his accomplices were to start serving their 22-year sentence at the beginning of September, but neither of them showed up in prison. They were reportedly hiding outside of the Czech Republic. Soghoyan has been taken to Nubarashen penitentiary in Yerevan.
