The Russia-based Armenian businessman and philanthropist Levon Hayrapetyan has passed away on October 18 after battling a long-time disease, writer Zori Balayan informed.

October 18, 2017, 11:38 Prominent philanthropist Levon Hayrapetyan dies at 68

STEPANAKERT, OCTOBER 18, ARTSAKHPRESS: “We was suffering from a serious disease. He passed away in the early morning and a few hours before he died he said he wanted to be buried in Moscow, next to his parents”, Balayan said.

Hayrapetyan spent the last years of his life in prosecutions. He was sentenced to four years in prison in Moscow, on charges of extorting $700 thousand from the mother of a Russian former senator. But because of health problems, his prison sentence was later commuted to house arrest.