The arrest of Levon Hayrapetyan, the affluent Russian-Armenian businessman held by the Moscow police upon return from Monaco earlier this week, is linked to an oil business, 
according to an Armenian pollster.
“It has to do with Russia’s oil business whose owners are normally Turkic-speaking nations. That’s a diaspora campaign of two countries, Armenia and Azerbaijan. So they will not let an Armenian go into that,” Aharon Adibekyan told reporters on Saturday.
He considered the arrest somewhat ridiculous, noting that the case in which Hayrapetyan was spotted has a history of ten years.
David Sanasaryan, the opposition Heritage party’s press secretary, pointed out to Soviet-style Chekist methods (when information is kept in secret as long as it isn’t in anybody’s interests). “I don’t know, of course, what Levon Hayrapetyan was involved in, but I am aware of the important things he did in Karabakh. Levon Hayrapetyan was among those people who strengthen Artsakh, its army and economy. He’s one of the rare wealthy people I haven’t heard anything bad about,” he noted.