WELL-KNOWN UNDERWORLD LEADER BY NICKNAME "HAY-HOOY" KILLED
Yerevan, August 8. ArmInfo. A well-known underworld leader, one of the
leaders of the Armenian organized criminal gang of Moscow Alexander
Givoyev by nickname "Hay-Hooy" was killed on highway Ashtarak-Gyumri
at 1:30p, today.
Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office official web-site says A.
Givoyev was driving from Yerevan to Gyumri with his family. When
he stopped his "Grand Cherokee" to make purchases in a nearby shop,
a red VAZ32109 with unknown state number plate approached the Jeep
and fired at A. Givoyev with a machine gun. Givoyev died in the place.
Accidentally, the seller Gyulnara Karapetyan was also killed.
Investigation is underway. A criminal case on the articles 104.2 and
235.1 was initiated.
To be noted, in 2002 A. Givoyev presented his candidature for the
office of Yerevan’s ‘Center’ community. In his pre-election program
he promised to solve all the social problems of the community and
later, of Armenia in general, due to organizing donations of Russian
Armenian businessmen. Alexander Givoyev was born in Yerevan, 1954,
and in the middle 1990’s was one of the renowned leaders of the
Russian organized criminal underworld. He had close relations with
certain Armenian underworld leaders, particularly ex-president of the
so-called ‘Armenian Assembly’ Serge Jilavian, opponent to the first
President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosian.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
