The mastermind of a cybercrime syndicate responsible for bank heists totaling over US$1 billion was arrested in Spain, Europol announced last week.
Night clubs are thriving in Hrazdan, a town of 60,000 in Armenia’s Kotayk Province that has seen better days. Striptease joints have replaced the former Soviet giants of manufacture that once employed thousands.
Ghukasyan’s defense attorney Karen Mezhlumyan reported the news about his client who was being held, alone, in a Nubarashen cell.
Brandishing what appeared to be a pistol and a hand grenade, a masked man entered the Fast Credit Capital office in Yerevan on April 2 and, after threatening workers and customers, walked out with some 6 million drams, this according to Armenia’s Investigative Committee.
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