Britain’s National Crime Agency coordinated an operation Tuesday to target a suspected network of international money-laundering specialists, which helped crime figures hide millions of pounds.
Sex traffickers in Mexico have reportedly begun using underage girls to recruit other minors for sexual exploitation, reflecting a broader trend of the increasing use of children by organized crime.
Armenian National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan was forced to bang his gavel and call boisterous MPs to order today just a few minutes after the legislature opened for business.
By a vote of 58 to 44, Armenia’s National Assembly rejected a proposal by minority parliamentary factions to create an ad-hoc committee to look into the country’s foreign debt accumulated since 2011 in the natural gas supply sector.
Grigor Grigoryan, a Prosperous Armenia party MP says he wants to give up his post as deputy chairman of the RA National Assembly’s Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs Standing Committee.
Huge trees have sprouted on the roofs of the churches and mausoleum from lack of care; they are surrounded by bushes and are inaccessible for tourists. These marvelous historical and cultural monuments entrusted to the management of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin have been neglected for too long.
Albert Ohanjanyan, accused of supplying the Artsakh Defense Army with frozen buffalo meat instead of beef last year, is compensating for damages incurred by building a 150,000 ton refrigerated unit (valued at US$181,000) from his own money.