RoA Police Department Kentron Division Chief Ashot Karapetyan reports that a little after midnight this morning Moscow police took Karen Dallakyan into custody in connection with the murder last spring of American-Armenian businessman Nazaret Hakob-Berberian. The suspect was about to board a plane leaving Moscow.

Already arrested for the murder is his acquaintance Petros Demiryan. It appears that Dallakyan was a friend of the arrested and had no direct connection with the slain Berberian. The police report that Dallakyan, a barman by trade, was more deeply involved in the murder than Demiryan.Mr. Berberian had been drugged then suffocated. The perpetrators used his jeep to transport the body to a stretch of road along the Yerevan-Sevan highway, where they buried it in a rocky culvert. They then parked the jeep in the Zvartnots Airport parking lot to give the impression that Mr. Berberian had gone abroad.