{"id":32659,"date":"2026-06-16T23:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/32659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:32:09","slug":"two-more-men-arrested-over-death-of-sydney-grandfather-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/32659\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more men arrested over death of Sydney grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detectives have arrested another two young men over the alleged botched kidnapping and murder of 85-year-old Chris Baghsarian.<\/p>\n

Police arrested the men, aged 19 and 20 years-old, at properties in Western Sydney on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

It follows the earlier arrests of another four people in relation to the grandfather’s death, which police believe was a case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n

Mr Baghsarian was allegedly taken from his North Ryde home in the early hours of February 13, sparking a major search effort during which police urged his kidnappers to release him.<\/p>\n

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Police have made arrests over Chris Baghsarian’s death, including of a 23-year-old man in March. (HANDOUT\/New South Wales Police Force)<\/p>\n

His body was found 11 days later near a golf club in the semi-rural suburb of Pitt Town in Sydney’s north-west.<\/p>\n

Police allege Mr Baghsarian was not the intended target of the kidnap-ransom plot.<\/p>\n

They suspect the perpetrators aimed to abduct a relative of Sydney businessman Dimitri Stepanyan, who lived on the same street as Mr Baghsarian, with the hope of receiving $50 million for his return.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, police arrested the 19-year-old man at a home in Shalvey and the 21-year-old man in Silverwater.<\/p>\n

Both men were charged with murder and take\/detain in company with intent to ransom occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old man was also charged with failing to comply with a digital evidence access order direction.<\/p>\n

Both men are due to appear at Mt Druitt Local Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A 23-year-old believed to have orchestrated the kidnapping was arrested and charged in March, while another 19-year-old man was charged in April with murder and allegedly supplying a firearm used in the kidnapping.<\/p>\n

Earlier, two men aged 29 and 24 years old were also charged for their roles in the alleged plot.<\/p>\n

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Floral tributes were laid outside Chris Baghsarian’s home in North Ryde in February. (Bianca De Marchi\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

Investigators have previously said they believe up to nine people may have been involved.<\/p>\n

Police believe Mr Baghsarian was killed at a makeshift stronghold in Dural, in Sydney’s outer north, before his body was dumped.<\/p>\n

His family described the ordeal as harrowing, remembering him as a devoted father, brother, uncle and grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives have arrested another two young men over the alleged botched kidnapping and murder of 85-year-old Chris Baghsarian.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29523,29524,23943,247,29525,265],"class_list":["post-32659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-chris-baghsarian","tag-mr-baghsarian","tag-north-ryde","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-businessman","tag-western-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}