Saak Karapetyan Explained

Saak Karapetyan
Office1:	Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation
Term Start1:	2016
Term End1:	3 October 2018
Birth Name:	Saak Albertovich Karapetyan
Birth Date:	28 March 1960
Birth Place:	Sovetsky, Balko-Gruzskoe Rural Settlement, Yegorlyksky District, Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Death Place:	Kostroma, Russia
Party:	United Russia

Saak Albertovich Karapetyan (28 March 1960 – 3 October 2018)^[1] was a Russian deputy attorney general of Armenian descent. He was killed in a helicopter crash in October 2018 at age 58.^[2]

Biography

From 1983 to 1996, Karapetyan was in various positions as a prosecutor of the Rostov region: he started as an intern, reached the head of the department for supervision of the investigation of particularly important cases and operational investigative activities. From 1996 to 2000, he was a State Duma deputy from the Yabloko party, deputy chairman of the security committee.

Death

Karapetyan died when a Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil crashed in Kostroma.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Book: T︠S︡entralʹnai︠a︡ izbiratelʹnai︠a︡ komissii︠a︡ Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii. Election of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation: Electoral Statistics 1995 1999. 2003. Ves Mir. 978-5-7777-0276-0. 166 . KARAPETYAN, SAAK ALBERTOVICH, b. 1960, prosecutor's office of Rostov region, section head; resident of Rostov-on-Don..
2. News: Senior Russian Prosecutor Killed in Helicopter Crash. The Moscow Times. 5 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181005134945/https://themoscowtimes.com/news/senior-russian-prosecutor-killed-helicopter-crash-63083 . 5 October 2018.
3. News: Рухнувший вертолет в Костромской области . 4 October 2018 . 5 October 2018 . . Investigative Committee of Russia.