The Azerbaijani Laundromat — a set of intertwined bank accounts used as a slush fund by the country’s elite to buy luxury goods, pay off European politicians, and launder money — also included payments to an individual working to influence American policy in the interest of Azerbaijan, an analysis of the data shows.
Some of the money that passed through the Azerbaijani Laundromat, a secret money laundering scheme and slush fund that saw €2.5 billion (US$ 2.9 billion) flow out of the country between 2012 and 2014, ended up in the hands of a purportedly private Azerbaijani organization that hired a Virginia firm to lobby the US government for more than a decade.
The ministers discussed a number of issues related to cooperation in both bilateral and multilateral formats, as well as regional and international issues.
Today, twice a year, the victims of the Sumgait, Kirovabad and Baku pogroms are commemorated, but the issues their survivors face in Armenia are ignored.
The Ministry of Finance’s auditing inspectorate has uncovered vast financial irregularities at Public Television of Armenia, but no one has been held accountable.
Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan participated in the 18th annual conference of the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE).
The delegation headed by Armenia's Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan is on the way to France to participate in the 10th Ministerial Conference of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the 5th Bologna Policy Forum on May 23-25, informs the Ministry of Education and Science.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has again called for the halt of all acts of civil disobedience in the country, calling such acts “sabotage” against a government that enjoys the confidence of the people.
Discussions will mainly focus on recent political developments, the priorities for the new government and the state of reforms.
The Armenian Ministry of Defense says the body had a bullet wound in the abdomen.
Toros Sefilyan, the brother of Jirayr Sefilyan, arrived in Armenia from Lebanon eleven days ago and says that he now wants to live in Yerevan.
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