No Charges to be Brought for Beating of Air Armenia CEO

Oligarch Ruben Hayrapetian admitted to beating Air Armenian CEO

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)””Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s office announced Tuesday that no charges would be brought against notorious oligarch Ruben Hayrapetian, who is known as Nemetz Rubo, for beating up the majority shareholder and chief executive officer of Air Armenia, Arsen Avetisyan, despite Hayrapetian’s own admission of responsibility.

Avetisyan said that Hayrapetian beat him up, sending him to the hospital for a broken nose and other injuries. The altercation stemmed from a business dispute, in which Hayrapetian claimed he was asked to mediate an alleged debt collection from Avetisyan for a close relative, whose identity has not been revealed. Hayrapetian claimed that the third party had “ceded”