Viktor Soghomonyan, who runs Kocharyan’s office, told Hetq that he hadn’t yet received any official notice from the SIS asking that Kocharyan voluntarily submit to being questioned on the matter.
Visiting the Berdavan Wine Factory, in Armenia’s Tavoush Province, one can still see the Soviet hammer and sickle emblazoned on the wine cellar’s archway.
Faced with the evidence against him, Vardanyan has confessed of withdrawing money from an AMD 25 million credit line that the Fund had with a local bank and using the cash for personal interests.
Saghatelyan, who served as an adviser to the Minister of Nature Protection from 2016 till his appointment as governor, also declared three automobiles (two Jeep Grand Cherokees and one Range Rover) and eight properties (two apartments and eight parcels of land).
The SIS says that Harutyunyan and other top government officials disregarded several articles of the constitution in an attempt to quash peaceful protests following the contested February 19 presidential election.
Armenia’s Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources reports that it has issued warnings to ten mining companies, charging them with violating their contractual obligations.
A 50-year-old man being treated at a Yerevan hospital for wrist and other bone fractures told police that he was beaten yesterday evening by MP Gagik Tsarukyan, leader of the Prosperous Armenia party, and Edward Babayan, one of his bodyguards.