A New York pension fund is suing Danske Bank and four of its former executives for concealing its money laundering scandal, resulting in an artificial inflation of the bank’s share price.
Armenia’s State Prosecutor’s Office today announced that it has charged former Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan as part of its investigation looking into the post-election protests of March 2008 that killed ten in Yerevan.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian today appointed Armen Papikyan to head the OSCE mission in Armenia and to serve as the head of Armenia’s U.N. office in Vienna.
Mirzoyan, who had been serving as First Deputy Prime Minister in Nikol Pashinyan’s interim government, is a former MP and a founding member of the Civil Contract Party.
Catarina Bjorlin Hansen has been appointed EBRD Regional Director for the Caucasus and will assume her new role based in Tbilisi on 1 April 2019. She replaces Bruno Balvanera who has been named EBRD Managing Director for Central Asia.
While Armenia’s Criminal Court of Appeals was today reviewing a petition filed by the State Prosecutor’s Office protesting the pre-trial release of former General Manvel Grigoryan, scores of people from Etchmiadzin, a town once controlled by the Grig
Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II and Armenian President Armen Sarkissian were on hand at the National Assembly as MPs in the new Armenian parliament got to work today.