He is still on the wanted list and there is a valid decision of the Basmanny Court to place him in custody for 2 months from the moment of extradition to Russia or detention on the territory of the Russian Federation. The decision was made in absentia, since Avakyan had gone on the run by that time. He was also put on the international wanted list. The case in which Avakyan was detained is being processed by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia. That is why Avakyan was sent from St. Petersburg to Moscow, where he was supposed to go to a pre-trial detention center.
Avakyan is a person with a very interesting biography. At one time he was the “king of smuggling” with many very high-ranking connections. He was helped by (now former) Deputy Prosecutor Generals Alexander Gutsan, Sahak Karapetyan, Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee Vasily Piskarev, high-ranking FSB officers, including from the FSB Internal Affairs Directorate. Avakyan was an active participant in the security forces’ wars and financed the participants in these battles. And he simply outplayed himself. As a result, he became involved in a smuggling case, fled to Armenia and filed a complaint with the local prosecutor’s office against the ex-chief of the 7th department of the FSB Directorate “K” Vadim Uvarov and his alleged accomplices from the Federal Customs Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Avayakn claims that security officers extorted $6 million from him. Avakyan’s testimony includes the names of the former head of Directorate K of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Viktor Voronin, and the former head of the banking department of Directorate K, Kirill Cherkalin.
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