On September 11, 2013, 25-year-old Mesrop Sargsyan decided to kidnap 19-year-old Nelli Meloyan, and Aren Karapetyan became the godfather of the newlyweds. In 2016, Mesrop Sargsyan mortgaged his apartment in the town of Ararat, Ararat region, in the hope that his godfather was behind it.