ANOTHER SUSPECT ARRESTED IN NAZARET BERBERIAN MURDER CASE

2009 /09/22 | 11:41

Important Criminal

RoA Police Department Kentron Division Chief Ashot Karapetyan reports
that a little after midnight this morning Moscow police took Karen
Dallakyan into custody in connection with the murder last spring of
American-Armenian businessman Nazaret Hakob-Berberian. The suspect
was about to board a plane leaving Moscow.

Already arrested for the murder is his acquaintance Petros Demiryan. It
appears that Dallakyan was a friend of the arrested and had no
direct connection with the slain Berberian. The police report that
Dallakyan, a barman by trade, was more deeply involved in the murder
than Demiryan.Mr. Berberian had been drugged then suffocated. The
perpetrators used his jeep to transport the body to a stretch of
road along the Yerevan-Sevan highway, where they buried it in a rocky
culvert. They then parked the jeep in the Zvartnots Airport parking
lot to give the impression that Mr. Berberian had gone abroad.