National security agents detain prominent businessman Arthur Asatryan, aka Don Pipo
15:19, 16 June 2018YEREVAN, JUNE 16, ARMENPRESS. National security service (NSS) agents have detained Arthur Asatryan, the Italy-based Armenian businessman aka Don Pipo, in Ejmiatsin (Vagharshapat) city.
Footage of the Armenian A1+ channel shows Asatryan being taken away in an NSS car outside a mansion in Ejmiatsin.
NSS spokesperson Samson Galstyan commented on the video in an interview to ARMENPRESS, saying: “You see what you see. I can only confirm that the work continues, we will issue a statement when it is finished.”
Earlier the NSS confirmed that agents are carrying out operations in the city.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan
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