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Hrachya Harutyunyan to be extradited to Armenia in a month or two (video)

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Hrachya-Harutyunyan

Hrachya Harutyunyan, an Armenian truck driver sentenced to 6 years and 9 months in prison by a Moscow court, will be transferred to Armenia. "When I met the deputy minister [of Justice], he said that Harutyunyan would be transferred to Armenia in a month or two. Now I am preparing papers for his extradition,” Victor Martirosyan, the father of Harutyunyan’s wife, told A1+ Company. Victor Martirosyan met with Deputy Minister of Justice Vigen Kocharyan earlier in Tuesday. On July 13, 2013 the gravel-loaded truck driven by Hrachya Harutyunyan, an Armenian citizen working in Russia, collided with a packed commuter bus outside the Russian capital. The impact of the crash was so powerful that the bus had split in two. The accident claimed 18 lives and injured more than forty others. The investigation revealed that the accident resulted from poor maintenance of the truck resulting in a brake malfunction. Harutyunyan, according to investigators, was to know about it. In August, a Moscow district court sentenced Hrachya Harutyunyan to 6 years and 9 months in prison on charges of 'violating traffic and vehicle operation rules, which unwittingly led to the death of two or more persons.' The families of the 18 victims received 18 mln rubles as compensation from Ara Abrahamyan, Chairman of the Union of Armenians of Russia. Harutyunyan has acquired numerous health problems while in custody. “He has a lump in his armpit. Some say it is a lipoma, others say it is a tumour. He also has heart and spinal problems, a hernia which disallows him from bending down to pick up something off the floor,” Victor Martirosyan said.