L.A. couple facing prison for stealing $18 million in a pandemic relief scam took a private jet to the Balkans and vanished into a posh town on the Mediterranean.
Richard Ayvazyan gets 17 years in prison for huge L.A. pandemic loan scam, wife Marietta Terabelian gets 6 years, brother Artur Ayvazyan gets 5 years
Ayvazyan, Terabelian and two relatives were convicted by a federal jury at a June 2021 trial in Los Angeles. Four accomplices pleaded guilty. Her husband Artur was Ayvazyan’s brother. When she pleaded guilty to three felonies, she implicated both brothers and Terabelian in the crimes. On Feb. 9, she showed up at the airport in Vienna and boarded an Austrian Airlines flight bound for Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro.
Boljević's fugitive squad opened an investigation. They determined the bank log-in attempt came from a home where “De Leon” and “Perez Garcia” were living, according to the FBI.