Will Sukiasian be released?
RA Police detained on Friday Saribek Sukiasian, the brother of the prominent pro-opposition businessman Khachatur Sukiasian.
Saribek Sukiasian and one of his associates, Artash Stepanian, were forcibly taken to a police station in Erebuni district from the offices of the Sukiasian family's SIL Concern holding company. They were suspected of threatening to kill a fellow entrepreneur. But no weapon was found with the suspects.
Today a Yerevan court is to decide Saribek Sukiasian's restraint.
In a conversation with A1+ Advocate Lusine Sahakyan said the police decision will be known in the second half of the day.
Saribel Sukiasian has managed SIL companies since his elder brother Khachatur Sukiasian went into hiding in March 2008.
Sukiasians' representatives state that this is an attempt to deprive the Sukiasian family of their property.
A police statement issued later on February 12 said the raid was prompted by a complaint from a Yerevan resident identified as Gor Davtian. It said that Sukiasian and Stepanian forced Davtian to sign "some documents" relating to his shares in a little-known company called Byuregh.
Sukiasian and Stepanian reportedly bought 40 % shares of the company from Gor Davtian last year after paying 105 million 700 thousand drams.
The Sukiasians are said to have bought another 40% of shares from stockholder Robert Harutyunyan.
