Sat, 5 April
13.1 C
Yerevan
USD: 391.22 RUB: 4.63 EUR: 431.28 GEL: 142.08 GBP: 508.39
spot_img

Armenia’s SIS completes investigation of HSBC bank Armenia robbery case

YEREVAN, September 14. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) said today it has completed the investigation of a criminal case of an armed attack on a branch of HSBC Bank Armenia in the capital city Yerevan on May 3, in which two persons were killed and another one wounded by a man armed with a knife, a grenade, and a rifle.

According to the Special Investigative Service, the attacker is a traffic police colonel Daniel Danielyan, who broke into the bank’s branch on Komitas Avenue and taking 242.3 million drams (a sum equivalent to $500,000).

The police rapid response group immediately arrived at the scene surrounding the robber with the help of a passer-by, but the robber showed resistance, wounding one of the policemen, but was quickly rendered harmless and taken to the police.

The investigation revealed that besides the grenade Danielyan also illegally acquired and kept at his home two guns PM and APS and 25 cartridges for other types of weapons.
Danielyan is charged with robbery, murder, illegal acquisition, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, ammunition, explosives or explosive devices. The case has been sent to the prosecutor’s office for an indictment and asking court to hear it –0-

spot_img

POPULAR

Insurance market of Armenia is in embryonic state

Insurance market of Armenia is in embryonic state

Ranking of Armenia’s most profitable banks in 2024

ARKA news agency has released a ranking of the most profitable commercial banks in Armenia in 2024.

Arka news agency’s ranking of most profitable Armenian banks in 2019

In 2019, Armenia-based commercial banks earned a total of 78.8 billion drams in net profit, up from 56.4 billion drams they had earned in 2018, according to ARKA news agency's ranking of the most profitable commercial banks in the fourth quarter of 2019

Top ten Armenian banks by size of lending in 2019

In 2019, the overall loan portfolio of Armenia's banking sector grew by 16.4% to 3.572.2 trillion drams

LATEST NEWS

spot_imgspot_imgspot_img