Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) said Wednesday it stopped investigating the offshore accounts of former Major General of Justice Mihran Poghosyan after Swiss and Panamanian authorities refused to help the probe into Panama Papers revelations.
A Yerevan court today sentenced two citizens of Armenia to more than twenty years in jail after finding them guilty of murdering an Indian citizen in Dubai and stealing US$1.7 million in diamonds.
Regarding relations between Armenia and the diaspora, Karapetyan cited the repatriation of Syrian Armenians who specifically went a long way toward improving the quality of restaurant services as a success story.
Armenia plans to donate 43 million AMD (US$88,500) to the Hayastan-All Armenian Fund in order to provide charitable aid to residents suffering from the conflict in Syria.
Karapetyan, during today’s cabinet session, floated the idea, saying, “Let’s list the issues we want to solve and draft a specific program.”
The NKR Ministry of Defense reports that the Line of Contact was relatively quiet yesterday and last night with only eight registered violations of the ceasefire and sixty rounds of fire.