Dozens of Georgian gang members and four mafia bosses with ties to major Caucasus gangs faced charges of being involved in an organized crime group, money laundering and criminal conspiracy on Monday, Le Parisien reported.
Israeli and French authorities arrested four suspected leaders of a crime group responsible for impersonating executives of companies and ordering employees to wire company money to bank accounts owned by the group, Europol reported Monday.
Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan has appointed Igor Grigoryan as the country’s new police chief and Samvel Shahramanyan as the new director of the National Security Service.
As to why the demonstrators are calling for the resignation of Garegin II and new elections to replace him, Reverend Father Armen Melkonyan from Holland, who was stripped of his duties as a parish priest, told reporters that immediate reforms are need in the Armenian Apostolic Church but that many clergymen are afraid they’d be defrocked if they raised their voices.
Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan has appointed Grigory Harutyunyan to replace Arayik Harutyunyan as Artsakh Minister of State.
Sefilyan told reporters covering the trial that all political prisoners in Armenia would be freed in a matter of days, and that those unjustly convicted by the courts would also be freed in time.
Two Yelk faction MPs paid 500,000 drams each and provided their personal guarantees to get Areg Kyureghyan, a member of the Sasna Dzrer group that seized a Yerevan police building in July 2016, released from pre-trial detention.
Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Vice President Armen Ashotyan went out of his way today to convince reporters that even though his party no longer enjoys an absolute majority in the National Assembly it’s still a force to be reckoned with given it still controls the greatest number of seats when compared to the other factions.
Mirzoyan promised to discuss the issue with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the government in an attempt to find a quick solution to the matter. Mirzoyan told the demonstrators that he’d need 25 days to organize the inspections.
In a statement posted on the Artsakh Police website, Aghajanyan writes that he step’s stepping down given the recent protests in Stepanakert and his desire not to exacerbate tensions by staying on the job.
The Belgian police conducted 21 searches in a few communes of East Flanders as part of the investigation into the activities of an organized criminal group with Belgian and Armenian members. The Belgian federal prosecutor's office runs the investigation.
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