Mikhail Khachaturyan is an alleged Russian mafia boss and drug lord who was stabbed to death by his three daughters Kristina, 19, Angelina, 18, and Maria, 17.

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The Khachaturyan sisters were all charged with the murder of their father and have not denied the charges.

Investigators believe the 17-year-old, Maria, stabbed him about 35 times while her sisters - Angelina (18) and Kristina (19) - struck his head repeatedly with a hammer and squirted pepper spray in his face.

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Friends and neighbors claimed that Khachaturyan was a tyrannical father and husband, who had developed a heroin habit and reportedly had connections with the criminal underworld.

Khachaturyan’s abusive behavior drove away his wife, the girls’ mother.

Khachaturyan’s son, in his 20s, also lives away from home.

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Left at home with the three girls, the 57-year-old fitted the family apartment with cameras to snoop on the girls while he was away, often forbade them from going to school, and subjected them to beatings if they dared to defy him.

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“He was always beating them,” said a family friend.

*“Once he took them to a forest and threatened to kill them.

The mother ran away from him, he banned all communication with her.”

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Another family friend alleges that Khachaturyan flew into a rage when he found a dog hair on the carpet.

He summoned one of his daughters to the room, made her brush the dog and eat its hair as punishment.

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By far the most severe allegations against Khachaturyan are sexual.

According to 112, another local Telegram news channel, the father raped one of his daughters, driving the teenager to attempt suicide.

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The girls’ estranged brother would sometimes visit.

After he stopped by with a male friend, Khachaturyan became convinced that the girls had sex with the male visitor.

The incident was recorded on audio tape.

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