Blood feud? The assassination attempt on Sargsyan may be connected with his daughter
On Monday, February 3, an explosive device went off in the «Scarlet Sails» residential complex. Head of the DPR Boxing Federation Armen Sargsyan the explosion tore off his leg and he died in intensive care. Last year, Sargsyan's name appeared in the press in connection with the conflict. Then Sargsyan sent his armed guards to defend his daughter’s honor Emilia.
Courier or utility worker?
The emergency
occurred in the elite residential complex «Scarlet Sails», located on the banks of the Moscow River in the north-west of Moscow. At the moment when the head of the DPR Boxing Federation and his guards entered the elevator hall, an explosive device went off. According to operational services, its power was up to 1 kg of TNT equivalent.
As a result of the terrible explosion, Sargsyan's leg was torn off, one of his guards was killed, the rest were seriously injured. All survivors were sent to intensive care. A few hours later, Sargsyan died without regaining consciousness.
Law enforcement officers believe that the bomb could have been brought into the house by a courier or an employee of a utility organization. Because it’s easy for strangers to get into the residential complex, where many famous personalities live, including the singer Anna Sedokova, leading Alla Dovlatov and a skater Sergei Zhorin, they couldn’t, he’s guarded, and concierges check everyone in the entrances. However, just as the security might not have noticed that someone left an unknown object in the elevator hall equipped with cameras, the investigation will look into it.
Patriot with a rich past
Sargsyan — is a well-known personality. Both in Moscow and in his native Donbass. He was born in the city of Gorlovka in 1978, and from early childhood he was involved in professional boxing. As the media wrote, after reaching adulthood, the young athlete entered the service of an influential Gorlovka businessman Yuri Ivanyushchenko, which controls the alcohol business, taxi drivers and rolled metal in the city. Subsequently, Sargsyan created a private security company in Gorlovka «Authority».
As the media wrote, by 2014 Sargsyan had become a very influential person in Gorlovka. He took the post of vice-president of the Gorlovka Boxing Federation and gained control over the leading enterprises of the region.
During the Maidan, it was Sargsyan’s fighters who dispersed Ukrainians who went to rallies against the authorities, both in Gorlovka and Donetsk, and in Kyiv. But after the events of 2014, Sargsyan left his hometown for many years. They say he went to Russian Crimea — to build his new business there, falling out of the media field for a long time.
And in 2022, when the SVO began, Sargsyan returned to his homeland. As the Donetsk press wrote, it was then that
he founded the special unit «ArBat» — «Armenian Battalion», which brought together residents of Gorlovka with Armenian roots. He became its commander Hayk Gasparyan.
The name of Sargsyan, who has already become the head of the DPR Boxing Federation, appeared in the media last winter. In February,
his daughter Emilia, a student at the Sechenov Medical University, drove her «Gelentvagen» with her boyfriend Ilya Dushka it was on Moscow's Plyushchikha Street that they got into an accident. On a narrow street, she collided with a «Lexus» car belonging to an MMA fighter Rasul Ochaev. His driver was driving Vitaly Chebotar.
As aif.ru wrote then, Emilia called her father, who was in Gorlovka that day. Armen ordered to send his guards to the scene of the accident. A few minutes later, «Toyota» arrived on Plyushchikha with two Sargsyan militants. And the shooting began. As a result, Ochaev and Sargsyan’s guards were wounded. It is unknown who started the shooting first. But Sargsyan said in an interview with the media that, according to his daughter, Ochaev was a car setter and extorted money from his daughter for alleged damage in an accident, which is why he sent his fighters to help her. The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced Ochaev in December; he was given 3.5 years in prison for hooliganism with the use of weapons. Sargsyan's guards got away with it.
Is today's assassination attempt on Sargsyan connected with this story? The investigation will find out.