The following was sent by Stefan Laxhuber, CEO of the German company “Eastinvestor”. Laxhuber has accused Gagik Tsarukyan, a prominent Armenian businessman and leader of the Propsoerous Armenia Party of swindling his company out of shares it owned in the “Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory owned by Tsarukyan.
The former vice-chairman of China’s powerful Central Military Comission (CMC), Xu Caihou, has been detained for suspected corruption. His wife, daughter and secretary were taken into custody as well.
It’s been more than a year since the new Georgian government denounced the previous administration for spying on its own citizens, and yet the surveillance continues.
The Bagratashen town council in recent months has been auctioning dry and fallow lands in hope of keeping residents from leaving.
Those opposed to the mandatory pension system recently introduced in Armenia organized a car convoy through the streets of Yerevan, using bullhorns to tell passersby about the mass rally/march set for Saturday at Liberty Square.
Military police yesterday arrested Colonel Rafayel Zakharyan, who heads the Nor Nork Military Commissariat in Yerevan, after accepting a US$3,900 bribe from a citizen.
When asked by this reporter, Darbinyan said that 300 million AMD had been spent to refurbish local roads. The work, in fact, was mostly carried out by companies owned by the mayor and his brother.
Hetq has learnt that Lousabek Samvelyan, the former assistant to the president of the Norashen 2007 consumer cooperative who has been charged with defrauding clients out of money paid for the purchase of apartments, will give testimony in a Yerevan court tomorrow.
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