The charges levied against Yegnukian have nothing to do with illegal arms possession or the taking of hostages; charges faced by the others.
Only three of the eighteen defendants were in court. The others had been banned from the courtroom for six hours at the previous session.
A new multinational effort was launched Wednesday to tackle grand corruption, a criminal category that can include bribery of public officials, embezzlement, abuse of power and money laundering of proceeds from crime. The International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre (IACCC) will be based at the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), according to the launch statement.
Police in Armenia say they have launched a manhunt for the person who stole 600,000 AMD ($1,250) from a SAS supermarket in Yerevan on June 30 after threatening a cashier with a knife.
Police have launched an investigation into the stabbing death of a thirty-year-old man in Berd, a small town in Armenia’s Tavoush Province.
Passenger volume at Armenia’s two airports (Yerevan’s Zvartnots and Gyumri’s Shirak) in the first six months of 2017 reached 1.094 million, an increase of 29.3% of the same period in 2016.
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