Ex-Rosreestr Official Who Escaped From Court Found Dead In Armenian Consulate
7- 24.09.2025, 11:26
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He allegedly committed suicide.
The body of 43-year-old Boris Avakyan, ex-deputy head of the Rosreestr department in the Leningrad region, who had escaped from the Kronstadt court building the day before, was found in the Armenian consulate in St. Petersburg, writes The Moscow Times.
Avakyan, an Armenian citizen, was found unconscious in the toilet of the consulate on Bolshoi Prospect of Vasilyevsky Island, after which an ambulance was called to the scene, according to Shot. However, the arriving medics only stated the death of the ex-officer. According to preliminary data, Avakyan committed suicide, said the interlocutor of "RIA Novosti" in law enforcement agencies. According to REN TV's source, Avakyan's bloody body and a knife were found inside the restroom. The restroom was locked from the inside. "The scene of the incident will be inspected, an investigative inquiry is being conducted into the incident," the Russian Investigative Committee said.
On September 23, Avakyan, who is one of the defendants in the case of evading customs duties worth more than 4.2 billion rubles, escaped from the Kronstadt court building in St. Petersburg during a smoke break and fled to the Armenian consulate. Together with the former official, businessman Dmitri Zarubin, who previously owned a Cartier boutique on Moika Embankment, and 18 other people are on trial.
In August, as Kommersant reported, Avakyan signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry to participate in the aggression against Ukraine, which allowed the criminal case against him to be suspended. However, the court later received a petition to reopen the trial due to the termination of the contract.
Avakyan, who was on the federal wanted list, was detained on September 17. He was wanted in Armenia for illegal crossing of the state border and legalization of proceeds of crime.
In 2021, Avakyan was already detained in a restaurant in St. Petersburg. At the time, law enforcers said he was the organizer of a criminal group that imported machinery into Russia under the guise of inexpensive construction materials. Before that, in 2016, Avakyan escaped house arrest and later ended up in Armenia, where, according to Kommersant, he entered politics and participated in the "velvet revolution" on the side of Nikol Pashinyan.
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