Armenian Deputy Justice Minister Vigen Kocharyan said that the petition had been reviewed but that extradition wasn’t considered appropriate at this time since a new criminal case in Armenia’s largest drug bust to date was being examined.
Igor Shuvalov, Russia’s deputy prime minister, owns a posh apartment in central London worth £11.44 million (US$ 17.7 million), says corruption activist Alexei Navalny.
The bank theft was so outsized and bold that citizens of the Republic of Moldova came out in the streets this past May by the thousands to protest: “We want our billion back!”
Abrahamyan is scheduled to participate in the opening ceremonies of the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.
Romanian authorities have raided the sewers in the North Station area of Bucharest, as well as several nearby buildings, to crack down on what they say is a drug-trafficking gang based in the underground tunnels of the capital.
A suspect in the murder of a well-connected Russian businessman who led a billion-ruble liquor store empire says investigators forced him to confess by torturing him, including threats of rape.
49 year-old Kamo Shalounts, an Artsakh War vet who has spent the last twenty years in Armenian prisons after being found guilty for the premeditated murder of two people, has written to Hetq complaining that the institute of conditional release does not exist in Armenia and that he does receive a pension will behind bars.
Banks in Armenia have become untouchable fortresses. They are under the protection of the government and can operate as they please because they do the government’s bidding.
On June 25, 2015, the Armenian government approved the expenditure of 98 million AMD (US$204,000) to purchase furniture for the recently created Ministry of International Economic Integration and Reforms.
The Artsakh Ministry of Defense reports that its military units, responding to a recent intensification of Azerbaijani ceasefire violations along the Line of Contact, have silenced the firing.