Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Exciting bankruptcy: who and what took hostages in a Citibank office – RBC

Aram Petrosyan, threatening to bomb, in” Citibank “branch on Nikitskaya street. August 24, 2016

Photo by Artem Geodakyan / TASS

In the evening on August 24 introduced himself as an entrepreneur Armen Petrosyan took a bank branch in the center of Moscow. The hostages were few people. Their actions, he connected with the bankruptcy

What happened

In located on Nikitskaya street Citibank branch around 19:00 came a man with a yellow box on the neck of which protruded wire. The man threatened to blow up the bank.

According to a source, “RIA Novosti”, before the attack, he told employees his plan. “A man sitting on a bench in the bank after lunch. Then he walked over to the employee, allegedly to open an account, and asked for the bank manager. Then he said that he was not against the activities of the bank and is not going to get the money and come here to seize it “, – the agency’s interlocutor said

The hostages were, according to various estimates, from four to six. people, among whom was the deputy editor Tass Gleb Bryansk. He said that “the invader did not look like a cruel criminal, but as a desperate man.” “He was very nervous, constantly apologizing, smoked a lot,” – said the Bryansk

The man himself offered hostages to call the police and ask them to spread the word about the incident through social networks.. Invader almost immediately dismissed employee of a credit institution, reported that she was pregnant. And soon after that the building escaped the guard. By 22 hours were released and the remaining hostages, after which the man surrendered to police. As explained, “Interfax” in law enforcement, he gave himself the head of the capital’s Interior Ministry Anatoly Yakunin, who arrived on the scene.

Invader passed a police box, which passed off explosives. Bomb suspect device turned out to be a hoax, inside of which was salt, TASS said. After the transfer of law-enforcement agencies of the box, the man asked for a soft attitude towards themselves.

Who captured Citibank

According to preliminary data, the Citibank branch seized 55-year-old Aram Petrosyan, who introduced himself bankrupt entrepreneur from the Moscow region. As the source said Tass, the man engaged in the production of medical products, but “four years ago, he developed a business problem, and he got into debt».

According to witnesses, which refers to TASS, during an attack by a man He told me that he had a loan of 2 million rubles, but not at Citibank. He explained that Citibank for the attack he was chosen as an international company, to attract as much attention as possible. He said that the need to abolish the existing law on bankruptcy of physical persons and “to create an institute of bankruptcy of physical persons.” Another its demand Petrosyan promised to voice the employees of television.

Before the attack on the building in central Moscow, he distributed a video on Youtube, which is addressed to the president of Russia Vladimir Putin. Invader warned that he was going to make a “sharp resonance violation of the Criminal Code”, which is – not specified. As he called his own failure as causes and motives of their actions. He said that he was “nothing to lose”. “All that was, I had already lost,” – said Petrosyan

The suspect called the head of state to recognize “at the state level, the concept of bankruptcy disease” and “create a state-level new institution that would solve these problems.”.

A video that He wrote Citibank seized businessman Aram Petrosyan

This is not the first man to appeal to the president. In the created Petrosyan group in the social network “VKontakte” in 2011 it was taken by yet another appeal to Putin in which Petrosyan called on debates governing the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and predicted that the agency will not work.

The “Agency equal Opportunity “in 2010. Petrosyan came up and laid out in his blog, he sent it to the government. According to Petrosyan, he also registered their copyright on ARVs. When in 2011 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI), Petrosyan considered that idea is stolen from him, and yet, sent to the ASI proposal to include in its program points of the program of ARV.

What business engaged Petrosyan

According to SPARC, born in Yerevan on March 8, 1961 Petrosyan Aram R. is the CEO and co-owner of the company mempo-corner and a co-owner of “SEARKO” registered in the suburban Mozhaisk. According to the Federal Service of Court Bailiffs (FSSP), LLC “SEARKO” as of arrears on taxes in excess of 1,000 rubles 1 August 2016 (the exact amount of debt is not specified). Enforcement proceedings against the company was filed in October 2012 and discontinued in 2014 due to “failure to identify the location of the debtor’s property or to obtain information about the availability of funds belonging to him and other assets held in accounts, deposits or stored in banks or other credit institutions ».

with regard to the very Petrosian, according to the FSSP, the enforcement proceedings were initiated in 2012 in connection with non-payment of the loan (discontinued in 2014 with the same wording). Three executive production were initiated in 2013, 2014 and 2015. also due to non-payment of loans and other debts. All of them have been discontinued on the same day, 25 May 2015, with the same wording.

According to the Federal Institute of Industrial Property, Petrosyan submitted ten applications for registration of patents and utility models in 2012-2014. Among his inventions – a medical mask for individual protection of the upper respiratory tract and organs of vision by droplet infection, harmful components, gas and smoke and a variety of pathogenic microorganisms, tourniquet, sublingual tablet, personal protection self-rescuer filter universal “Unispas 112″ protective mask -respirator, sanitary and hygienic mini-kit, gidrogazovy teploelektrogenerator, carbon-hydrogen ramjet engine. Some of these patents still in force, while others are frozen due to non-payment of dues.

During the attack, according to witnesses, on which the cited TASS Petrosyan handed the hostages kits for first aid.

according to the database of legal entities “Kommersant Card Index”, which refers to “Rain”, a man named Aram Petrosyan, head of LLC “Charm”, which produces medical equipment, plastic products and rubber products.

According to the database, Petrosyan was the CEO of the company “Nalira”, which is engaged in the production of gas generators, devices for distillation, filtering and purification of liquids and gases, but in August 2015 was excluded from the Unified register of legal entities.

also, people named invader Bank was the head of the company “CTP Group”. Currently occupies the post of CEO Valiko Danielyan comments “rain” said Petrosyan already a long time does not refer to the joint-stock company.

«Interfax» source at the same time reported that Petrosyan lives in Zaoksky district Tula region. He added that currently the possible involvement of a resident of the Tula region to the seizure of bank checks in the regional management of the Ministry of Interior.

in the center of Moscow in a bank unknown seized hostages

Video: RBC

what punishment threatens

With regard to Petrosyan investigators opened a criminal case on the fact of hostage-taking, but the source of the “RIA Novosti” in the police said that he could avoid punishment for hostage-taking as people voluntarily let go and surrendered to police. In addition, the investigation may request a psychiatric evaluation and to achieve compulsory treatment of men.

According to the source, the charge can be reclassified. According to Tass, the invader will be punished according to the article. 127 of the Criminal Code for illegal deprivation of liberty of citizens. According to a source, “RIA Novosti”, after Petrosyan surrendered to law enforcement authorities for questioning he was taken to the FSB. The interlocutor of the agency did not rule out that it is the service will continue to be engaged in investigating the case.

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