Federal prosecutors said Monday that a United States grand jury has charged former Mexican governor Tomás Jesús Yarrington Ruvalcaba with money laundering, drug trafficking, and accepting bribes, InSight Crime reports.
The trial of high-ranking Vatican official Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, accused of attempting to smuggle US$30 million, opened on Tuesday, AFP reports.
Today it is not unusual for miscreants to create a scandal out of nothing and to tarnish a persons’ reputation without much deliberation. And what makes it worse is the readiness of the media to publish without proof of its veracity, articles written by such miscreants who do not have the courage to name themselves and instead assume the title of “Anonymous”.
Minister Tovmasyan, visibly irritated at the question, added that the matter was in the hands of the Prosecutor General and that the government had a vested interest in getting to the truth.
According to the 2013 Corruptions Perceptions Index, just released by Transparency International, which scores and ranks countries on how corrupt a country’s public sector is perceived to be, Armenia ranked 94th out of 177 countries.
Upon hearing the news that the National Assembly had just voted down a bill calling for a one year postponement of a mandatory individual pension system, they decided to march on the offices of the Human Rights Defender.
Armenia’s National Assembly shot down, by a vote of 54-46, a draft statement that would have postponed the launch of a mandatory individual pension system by one year.
A festive mood reigned in the legislature. Naturally, MPs were as boisterous as ever, joking with colleagues, and failing to heed the admonitions of the parliament speakers.
The tailings dam of the Akhtala Mountain Enrichment Combinat (AMEC) is located in the aptly named "Valley of the Martyr”, nestled between the villages of Metz Ayroum and Tchotchkan in Armenia’s Lori Province.
At least 40 journalists were injured when baton-wielding police charged into a protesting crowd in Kyiv on Monday evening. The Kyiv Post reports that the journalists, who included photojournalists from The New York Times, Reuters, and AFP, were hit with clubs, rocks, tear gas, and noise grenades.
Ukrainian multimedia conglomerate UMH Group may be continuing to bleed reporters. Less than three weeks after 13 journalists left Forbes Ukraine, a subsidiary of UMH, rumors of two dozen staff members departing from Korrespondent magazine have surfaced.
Anahit Sahradyan isn’t at all surprised when we knock at her door.
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