Suspected paymaster of Kiev businessmen Shabab Aloyan’s assassination detained

July 31, 2010 - 16:36 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - A person suspected of ordering assassination of Kiev’s 4Room shopping center co-owner, Shabab Aloyan was detained. As the head of criminal investigation department Valeri Litvin stated, operation on the search and detention of Merab Suslov, a cousin of Shabab’s wife took several months.

The operative group located the suspect in Kazan, his recent hiding place. Merab Suslov will be extradited to Ukraine within 30 days, with investigation process to be launched upon his arrival, forUm reported.

Director of Kiev 4Room furniture center in Kiev, Shabab Aloyan, a Kurd of Armenian origin died of bullet wounds on October 2, 2009.

Two of his guards died on the site of armed attack, the PR Center of the Main Directorate of Interior Ministry of Ukraine in the Kiev region reported.

According to PR Center, 2 unknown persons opened shooting with automatic gun as Shabab Aloyan was entering the shop. The guards tried to resist but they were killed. Shabab Aloyan was wounded. The 2 attackers unknown drove away. One of them had a traffic accident. Another attacker was arrested days later. Merab Suslov, a cousin of Shabab’s wife was named possible paymaster of the assassination.