It has already been almost four months since the first Armenian ambassador to the UN, former foreign minister and former president of the ANM Council Alexander Arzoumanian was imprisoned. There are two issues facing the staff at the National Security Service who are working on his case. The first is to prove that Arzoumanian was involved in laundering money that had been obtained illegally.
Thirty-eight-year-old Samvel Hovsepyan has voluntarily refused the pension that wounded veterans of the Karabakh war receive. Samvel was wounded twice between 1992 and 1994. The second time he lost his leg and became permanently disabled.
Former Minister for Environmental Protection Vardan Ayvazyan issued 7 licenses on the same day - December 19, 2005 - for the exploration of 4 sectors of the Hankavan mine area and 3 sectors of Meghradzor in the province of Kotayk, to a company called Interier, founded by his assistant Tigran Krmoyan.