LOS ANGELES - Family members of a San Fernando Valley couple whom the FBI believes cut their tracking bracelets and went on the run while awaiting sentencing for their roles in an $18 million COVID-19 relief fraud case contend the pair were kidnapped -- apparently to prevent them from disclosing the identities of unindicted co-conspirators, court papers obtained Friday show.The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 in exchange for information leading to the arrest of Richard Ayvazyan, 43, and his wife and co-defendant Marietta Terabelian, 37.Federal authorities believe that the couple, facing the possibility of years behind bars, removed their location monitoring devices and absconded from pretrial supervision together on Aug.
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