A Russian court has sustained a motion by the Russian prosecutor's office to detain Levon Sargsyan, a former Armenian MP arrested near Moscow on November 21, for forty days.

Sargsyan was arrested in connection with the 2008 attack on the house of Armen Avetisyan, a former head of the Armenian State Customs Committee.

Gor Abrahamyan, an adviser to Armenia’s Prosecutor General, reported the news Facebook page.

Sargsyan’s extradition to Armenia is now in the works.