Guatemalan President Otto Perez has approved the extradition to the United States of Waldemar Lorenzana, alias “El Patriarca” (The Patriarch), who was arrested in 2011 on drug trafficking charges.
A citizen of the UK, Roy Harrison was unable to purchase property when he moved to Armenia nearly 20 years ago. So he asked his co-worker and translator, Zhirayr Zabounyan, to buy property in Tzaghkadzor in his name. Despite investing over 60 million AMD and living in the house all this time, the UK national was unable to prove in court that the house belongs to him. Zabounyan effectively claimed the property after all this time.
Those protesting Armenia’s newly introduced mandatory pension system have now gathered outside Yerevan’s Kentron (Central) Police Station.
After staging a protest outside the Ministry of Finance in Yerevan in opposition to the mandatory pension system, the crowd is now headed towards the downtown police headquarters to demand the release of those earlier detained.
Resident Sirvard Mikayelyan sums up the village’s woes in a nutshell - former residents only return to mark sad occasions.
Voicing their opposition to the mandatory pension system in Armenia, several hundred protesters pushed their way to the front of the Ministry of Finance despite the best efforts of a sizeable police presence.
The Bucharest Court of Appeal Tuesday handed down jail sentences for eight executives and management officials, who were found guilty of tax evasion, and money laundering involving the transfer of football players between international football clubs.
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