MOSCOW, November 15 (RAPSI, Yevgeniya Sokolova) – Russian government has offered businessman Amazasp Abramyan €15,000 in compensation for failure to provide medical attention in detention, his lawyer Sergey Petryakov told RAPSI on Tuesday.

Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Georgy Matyshkin has come up with this approach as part of an amicable agreement in order to withdraw proceedings in Strasbourg, Petryakov said.

On Tuesday, Abramyan assented to the proposal of Russian authorities who had actually admitted violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights which prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment, the lawyer added.

According to Petryakov, Abramyan, the head of Eurodorstroy company, was arrested on suspicion of bribery in February 2015 and put in jail. His detention has been repeatedly extended by court.

He was diagnosed with multitude of serious diseases. Doctors insisted that the businessman requires immediate surgery. However, a warden of the Perm detention facility N1 where he had been placed said that the surgery is impossible in a closed institution because of its complexity.

One of the Perm medical institutions was ready to admit the businessman for treatment, however the detention unit’s administration failed to ensure convoy for the period of treatment and post-surgery rehabilitation (about 90 days), the attorney added.

In April 2016, a court in Perm found Abramyan guilty and fined him 50 million rubles ($759,200). The ruling has become effective.

In June, ECHR communicated the application filed by Abramyan and sent a range of specific questions to Russia. The defendant offered the litigant to settle the dispute amicably instead of submission of the response, Petryakov said.