The founder of Liberty Reserve, a digital currency payment processing company that prosecutors say criminals used to launder US$6 billion of illicit profits, has pleaded not guilty in the US District Court in Manhattan, according to ABC News.
A pair of Italian tennis players face corruption accusations after intercepted Internet and phone conversations indicate they fixed tennis matches, reports Associated Press.
A former top executive of Zurich-based UBS AG, a Swiss financial services company, faces up to five years in prison for conspiracy to commit tax fraud if convicted in a trial that began Oct. 14 in Florida.
The Armenian government today gave a preliminary green light for a US$200 million tailings recycling program purposed by four mining companies – Cronimet Mining, Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine CJSC, VSEI Operations Group, and Alyotig LLC.
Mutafian condemned the inequitable distribution of wealth in Armenia which favors the rich, adding that better governance would greatly improve the socio-economic situation in the country.
Gevorgyan, who also serves as Armenia’s Minister of Territorial Administration, told Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan that he’s decided to leave government service to pursue a career in the private sector.
Argam Abrahamyan, son of Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, is gearing up to open the largest shopping plaza in the town of Artashat on October 30.
Hunters who have ‘bagged’ a wolf under a $49,00 Armenian government culling program, ostensibly to maintain an healthy ecological balance of the wolf population, can now take the hides to the National Academy of Science’s Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology in Yerevan every Thursday from 2pm to 6pm.
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