I was born to a socially well-off family. In the early 1970s, my father managed two restaurants. They were good restaurants. One at the end of Ajarian Street and the other, the Grill Bar, in Nork. My father built them from scratch and ran them.
I want to tell you about Soghomon Kocharyan, who was a spy in the Shurnukh battles, was injured twice on the battlefield, who again returned and fought against the Azeris. In 1995, he was accused of murdering an Iranian citizen, an ethnic Azeri named Mirzabek. He was sentenced to death (now life imprisonment).
According to press reports, the sales receipts handed out in his various companies (Palermo, Aldo, River Island and Next) were all fake. That’s to say customers were give receipts, but they were for show only. This was the way business was conducted in stores belonging to a state official.
The preliminary investigation of 6 defendents initiated for gangsterism, bandity, preparing assault, gaining illegal control of means of transportation, illegal turnover of narcotic drugs without the purpose of sale was completed in the General Investigations Unite of the Police adjunct to the government of the Republic of Armenia.