Armed men beat up and threatened to kill the head of Russian aerospace giant Sukhoi on Wednesday after breaking into his house and stripping it of money and jewellery, police said. The four unidentified men broke into Mikhail Pogosyan's villa in a heavily guarded compound near Moscow through an open window just after midnight, tied up his wife and 19-year-old son with electric cables, and beat him up.
"They stole money, gold jewellery and a collection of coins," a Moscow police spokesman said.
State-owned Sukhoi - Russia's biggest warplane manufacturer and the country's No. 1 arms exporter - declined to comment.
A source close to Pogosyan told Reuters that "Mikhail Aslanovich is alive and well".