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Undated: 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]
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saak_Karapetyan
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October 4: A Russian deputy attorney general, who is thought to have directed Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya in her efforts abroad on behalf of Russia's government, reportedly died Wednesday night in a helicopter crash.
The Daily Beast reported that Saak Albertovich Karapetyan was aboard an unauthorized helicopter flight, which crashed near the village of Vonyshevo, outside of Moscow.
Karapetyan was reportedly behind Veselnitskaya's global efforts to lobby lawmakers to overturn anti-corruption acts such as the U.S. Magnitsky Act, which passed in 2012. The U.S. legislation is similar to others around the world which commemorate Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died while trying to expose a $230 million fraud scheme in Russia. The acts have reportedly incensed Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Daily Beast reported that Karapetyan signed a letter sent on behalf of Russia's government to a U.S. court in 2014 refusing assistance into an investigation concerning Magnitsky's death. The letter was drafted reportedly with aid from Veselnitskaya.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/409961-russian-deputy-ag-linked-to-lawyer-in-trump-tower-meeting
October 7: The pilot involved in the helicopter crash which killed one of Vladimir Putin's top prosecutors was found with two bullets in his body, it has been claimed today.
Deputy prosecutor-general Saak Karapetyan - a former MP and long-time ally of Putin - died Wednesday, died when his AS-350 helicopter came down in Kostroma region northeast of Moscow on Wednesday.
Karapetyan has been linked to Moscow's alleged offers of 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump's election campaign via the glamorous lawyer who met with the Trump campaign in 2016.
While overturning the law would have been Veselnitskaya's main aim, leaked emails saw her claim that she had dirt on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, allegedly given to her by Karapetyan's Prosecutor-General's Office.
Before his death this week, Karapetyan had been in charge of the Russian criminal investigations into the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March.
He also led the investigation into the deaths of Putin foe Boris Berezovsky, and dissident Alexander Litvinenko - which both took place on UK soil.
There are also extraordinary claims he was a channel of leaks to British, US and Swiss secret services.
The shooting allegation is expected to increase speculation that the leading prosecutor was assassinated.
The official version is that the 'overloaded' helicopter crashed after clipping trees in Kostroma region, killing Karapetyan, his nephew Areg Arutyunyan, 47, pilot Stanislav Mikhnov, and another passenger Viktor Kopteev, 54.
But respected Moscow journalist Sergei Dorenko has bluntly accused the investigating authorities of a cover-up in seeking hide two bullet wounds to highly experienced 54-year-old pilot - and gun shot damage to the copter's blade.
Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko had insisted:: 'The information is not true.
'None of those killed in the crash has any gunshot wounds.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6249581/Pilot-shot-helicopter-crash-killed-senior-Putin-prosecutor.html
October: A Putin Pal Is Killed & A Professor Is Still Missing. Who's Next On The Hit List?
There have been over 30 possible victims of Putin's use of assassination as a weapon against enemies of his autocratic regime. The hits often are carried out by the FSB.
It was the ride of Saak Albertovich Karapetyan's life. It also was his last as Vladimir Putin apparently has claimed yet another victim in his relentless campaign to assassinate those he deems enemies of his autocratic regime. But Karapetyan is different because of his insider status and intimate knowledge of the Russian president's ill deeds ....
