Chairman of National Bank of Abkhazia killed in road accident

1 August 2014 - 7:31pm

Chairman of National Bank of Abkhazia dies in road accident

The manager of the National Bank of the Republic of Abkhazia, Illarion Argun, has died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident.
Earlier this Friday, the car of the chairman of the National Bank was involved in an accident in the Sukhumi district. Details of the incident are not known.
Argun had been the head of the Central Bank of Abkhazia since 2005.

The manager of the National Bank of the Republic of Abkhazia, Illarion Argun, has died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident.
Earlier this Friday, the car of the chairman of the National Bank was involved in an accident in the Sukhumi district. Details of the incident are not known.
Argun had been the head of the Central Bank of Abkhazia since 2005.

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Chairman of the Central Bank of Abkhazia was killed in an accident
01.08.2014 22:25

Chairman of the Central Bank of Abkhazia Illarion Argun was killed in the accident. "The head of the Central Bank Illarion Argun and his driver were burned in the police car after an accident", - has informed "Interfax" on Friday, the acting President of Abkhazia, Valery Bganba. "The accident took place near the village of Eshera Sukhumi district", - he said.

As have informed in the Ministry of interior of the Republic, the accident took place in Sukhumi district. Armored car of the Chairman of the Central Bank crashed and caught fire. According to the revised data, in addition to the Argun killed the head of the security service of the Bank Jeyran Cirval-oglu. The accident occurred about 18 hours 00 minutes Moscow time on the highway Psou-Sukhum, on the site of the village of Upper Eshera near restaurant "Escher".

Head of the investigation Department of the Prosecutor General Dzhemal Gogia reported that a fire broke cars AUDI S8, which was the Chairman of the Central Bank and the head of his security. "As a result of fire vehicle door was locked, and therefore passengers died from suffocation. At the scene arrived heads of MIA, Prosecutor's office, the rescuers", - he said.

An inspection of the scene with the involvement of a forensic scientists, engineers, field engineers, vehicles. "The causes of ignition has not yet been established," said Gogia.

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MOSCOW, August 1./ITAR-TASS/. After the presidential elections in Abkhazia planned for August 24, the republic's priority may be discussion of a new interstate treaty with Russia, Deputy Foreign Minister Irakly Khintba said in an interview to the Izvestia newspaper.

Early presidential elections are called in Abkhazia in connection with the opposition-demanded resignation of President Alexander Ankvab, who has headed the county since 2011.

A treaty would specify principles and a mechanism of a new format of relations between the republic and Russia, Khintba said. Among the main points are strengthening of mutual coordination in security and defense, modernization and imrpovement of life in Abkhazia and creation of conditions for Abkhazia to join the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazkahstan.

There is a need to gather important aspects of cooperation set down in various agreements numbering 84 in one document, he said.

It relates also to cooperation in the law-enforcement and customs areas. For modernization and economic development, road maps shoud be worked out to be a basis to provide assitance to Abkhazia in its reforms, the minsiter added.

It must be joint work with Abkhazia's active participation, he said.

Abkhazia's stategic situation requires strengthening cooperation with Russia in security to prevent possible risks. "We assess possible risks from the process of Euro-Atlantic integration of Georgia. Tbilisi, which has signed an association membership agreement with the EU, is seeking to join NATO, while developments in Ukraine may push the West to take revenge on Russia in other regions," the republic's deputy foreign minister said.

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