For years, journalists — and reportedly even federal investigators — have pored over U.S. President Donald Trump’s business deals for signs that criminals and their dirty money may have entered his orbit.
Police today detained Aleksandr Sargsyan, brother of ex-Armenian President and Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, on suspicion of possessing illegal arms.
Armenia’s Special Investigative Service has told Hetq that Nazik Amiryan, wife of MP Manvel Grigoryan, will be arrested on charges that on June 16, 2018 she gave the order to fill up two cars with 2,980 cans of meat marked for “army use only” stored at the Yerevan offices of the Yerkrapah Union of Volunteers and drive them away.
In an open statement, the department says that while it is effectively carrying out all its anti-crime functions, it can boost the efficiency of such efforts if individuals report crimes they either witness or fall victim of.
Armenia’s Special Investigative Service SIS) has named Karen Grigoryan, son of arrested MP Manvel Grigoryan, as a defendant in the embezzlement case in which his father is accused of stealing equipment and supplies destined to Armenian soldiers during the 2016 “Four Day War” in Artsakh.
A handful of people earlier today blocked the main entrance to the Yerevan Municipal Building, demanding that law enforcement investigate press allegations of corruption and embezzlement of government funds levied against Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan and his administration.