Armenian oligarchs, politicians, and various government officials have made Dubai their home away from home.
In short, the official had collected all our personal data and wanted to imply that he could use it because he has connections in the media. The head of that department was removed later and now occupies another position.
Latest #SuisseSecrets investigation is about Yukos Oil's Armenian subsidiary company.
Swiss banking is notoriously secretive. Sometimes, even the names on accounts opened in Swiss banks don’t reflect their real owners. How can Nina Minasyan’s whopping 106 million Swiss francs be explained?
Armenian entrepreneur, former MP Artak Sargsyan, has set up companies abroad to support his business in Armenia.
Former Armenian President Armen Sarkissian’s name appears in #SuisseSecrets international journalism investigation
In his statement yesterday, Armen Sarkissian noted some reasons for his abrupt departure from the presidency, but we believe they have little to do with his resignation. We think the reason for his resignation is just the one: he was a citizen of ano
On October 26, 2012, Armenia’s Haykakan Zhamanak daily newspaper, owned by the family of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, published an English advertisement about the investments a group of British businessmen planned in Armenia's mining sector.
This 28-man battery remained at its designated position until October 27, 2020.
Photos by Edik Baghdasaryan
The Armenian captives were taken to a prison for ten days and were relentlessly interrogated. Poghosyan says there was no beds or chairs in the cell, only a camera on the wall.
Today, we are almost non-existent as a country.
The guys who fought in the war say almost nothing.
This video was taken on November 13, on the road from Stepanakert to Karmir Shuka. We met these volunteers still manning their positions.
Kristine Kalashyan returned to Stepanakert on November 21. Joining her were her mother, sister, and the children. No one met them in Stepanakert. They rented two taxis. Her mother, sister and the children left for Martakert.
Most of the population of Artsakh serves or works in the army. What are they going to do?
Russian peacekeepers have been deployed in almost all directions in Karabakh.
From the first day in Karabakh, I studied the weapons used by Azerbaijan to destroy peaceful settlements.
The Azerbaijani military today targeted the Artsakh towns of Stepanakert, Shushi and Martakert with Smerch rockets. This is the aftermath in Shushi.
Azerbaijani armed forces today targeted the Artsakh capital Stepanakert and Shushi. Rocket fire hit residential areas and urban infrastructure in both towns. Here’s what the damage looked like in Stepanakert.
Azerbaijani armed forces today targeted the Artsakh capital Stepanakert and Shushi. Rocket fire hit residential areas and urban infrastructure.
A Hetq team of reporters covering the war in the northeast section of Artsakh had the chance to talk to a group of volunteers patrolling the frontline.
Video: Karabakh Frontline - Oct. 25
Shahumyan native Mamikon Avanyan arrived from Russia as soon as he heard news about the fighting. He says there are many more in Russia who want to make it to Artsakh.
The Hetq correspondents also report that the sound of an Azerbaijani drone explosion was heard on the way to Stepanakert.
Israel and Turkey are the main suppliers of drones to Azerbaijan. One of the details details of an Israeli drone shot down in the territory of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic reads "Made in Germany" .
Artsakh: Frontline Armenian artillery unit
The guys barely leave their shelter when an order is received to prepare to fire. The guns start working.
Hetq Chief Editor Edik Baghdasayan writes from an undisclosed location along the Artsakh-Azerbaijan frontline.
Malta-based Vivaro Ltd, a remote gaming operator, was fined €733,160 in late August after the FIAU inspected the company, uncovering ten violations.
One of the damaged homes belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Samvel Udoumyan. When a Hetq camera crew arrived on the scene on July 15, Samvel was tending to the trees, and his wife Hasmik was watering their garden’s cucumber plants.
When the coronavirus hit Armenia in early March, those who had been exposed to the first confirmed patient were ushered to the mountain resort town of Tsaghkadzor and quarantined at the posh Golden Palace Hotel Resort & Spa.
Arsen Torosyan has insulted several of our journalists in a collective way. If the insult were directed to individuals, a lawsuit could be filed against the minister.
Hetq, in conjunction with its OCCRP partners, has investigated a multi-billion-dollar money laundering scheme
Former Armenian Minister of Finance Gagik Khachatryan and his family have been swept up in a financial scandal involving Bradwell Investment Corp., a company owned by Khachatryan’s nephew Aram Khachatryan.
It’s taken almost two years and two legal suits, but Armenia’s Special Investigative Service has finally provided Hetq with its decision to drop the “offshore” criminal investigation of Mihran Poghosyan, Armenia’s former Chief Compulsory Enforcement
There will be no surprise attack since we’re constantly monitoring Azerbaijani military movements.
The Ministry of Finance’s auditing inspectorate has uncovered vast financial irregularities at Public Television of Armenia, but no one has been held accountable.
The SIS dropped the investigation soon afterwards and Poghosyan, who resigned in the publicity fallout, was then elected a deputy in the Armenian parliament on the Republican Party of Armenia ticket.
Armen Sargsyan, Armenia’s former Ambassador to Great Britain, who was sworn in today as Armenia’s new president, is a businessman with deep pockets and commercial holdings in Russia, Europe, the United States, various CIS countries, and in offshore zones.
Violins crafted by Antonio Stradivarius, Nicolò Gagliano, and other old-world masters were to be displayed and sold in Yerevan at an exhibition jointly organized by the Aram Khachaturian-Competition Cultural Foundation and the Del Gesu Foundation. The exhibition was a part of the 11th Aram Khachaturian International Competition.
Mkrtchyan, is said to have cooked the books from 2013-2016, creating nineteen ‘ghost’ job listings. Wages were then disbursed, only to be pocketed by Mkrtchyan.
It was part of the international Panama Papers expose; an investigation encompassing hundreds of reporters and scores of news sites delving into the unprecedented leak of 11.5 million files from the database of the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonesca.
In an interview with Hetq, Founding Parliament secretariat member Alek Yenikomshian (photo) says that Jirayr Sefilian is ready to enter into negotiations with law enforcement officials and even President Sargsyan to guarantee that the standoff at the Yerevan police patrol office ends without further bloodshed.
In 2010, Gourgen and Artyom, the two sons of Armenian Minister of Finance Gagik Khachatryan, purchased a sprawling private house in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhood of Westwood. They paid $11 million for it.
Deputy Commander L. Baghdasaryan suggests we visit a post where an Azerbaijani diversionary incursion was repulsed on March 8. A soldier to be decorated there participated in the battle.
The artillery of the Artsakh Defense Army played a pivotal role in repulsing Azerbaijani military forces in the latest round of fighting along the Line of Contact. Hetq talks to Colonel Genady Baghdasaryan, who commands the artillery, about the four-day war and the tactics involved. Baghdasaryan was recently awarded the Military Cross First Class.
As Lieutenant Mkrtchyan congratulates the soldiers, in turn, he jokes, “If I had known that I could have made lieutenant like this, I would have never attended the Vazgen Sargsyan military institute.”
Major General of Justice Mihran Poghosyan, Armenia’s Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer, is one of the country’s officials who has sown deep roots in offshore economic zones.
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