A 73-year-old businesswoman affiliated with the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) has been arrested on suspicion of plotting the contract killing of a wealthy lawmaker who quit the country's second largest parliamentary force recently.
Gohar Yenokian, who also held a parliament seat from 2007-2012, was taken into custody late on Monday. In a statement released the following day, Armenia's Investigative Committee said she is suspected of "preparing a murder" but did not elaborate. The law-enforcement body did not formally charge her as of Tuesday evening.
According to news reports citing her lawyer, Yenokian is facing prosecution on charges of trying to have Karo Karapetian, a fellow entrepreneur and pro-government deputy, killed. Her alleged motives are not clear.
Armenian News
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