Topic: Corruption
YEREVAN – Gagik Khachatryan, a controversial former finance minister, was arrested on Tuesday, August 27 as part of a corruption investigation conducted by Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS). Another law-enforcement[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenia’s current government has made “serious progress” in combatting corruption in the country but should not “rest on its laurels,” a senior European Union diplomat said on[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Former Mayor of Hrazdan Aram Danielyan was arrested on Tuesday, February 26, on suspicion of embezzlement and misuse of state funds, the Investigative Committee said. Danielyan is[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — A controversial brother of Armenia’s former President Serzh Sargsyan has been formally charged with fraud, his lawyer said on Tuesday, February 19. The lawyer, Mihran Poghosian said[...]
By Ani Mejlumyan YEREVAN (Eurasianet) — When Serzh Sargsyan cast his vote at a school gymnasium in Armenia’s December 9 parliamentary elections, it took several tries for the machine reading[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — A court in Yerevan on December 31 granted bail to former President Serzh Sargsyan’s former chief bodyguard less than two months after he was again arrested on[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Law-enforcement authorities on Monday, December 3, moved to arrest on corruption charges a member of Armenia’s outgoing parliament representing former President Serzh Sargsyan’s Republican Party (HHK). Armenia’s[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The government is likely to refuse the offered property donations from ex-general Manvel Grigoryan and ex-customs official Armen Avetisyan, since the general prosecution might have objections, Chairman[...]
BERLIN (RFE/RL) — Armenia’s ambassador to Germany Ashot Smbatyan on November 5 categorically denied any ties to local Armenian criminal groups after an investigation conducted by two leading German media[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Member of Parliament Manvel Grigoryan, the lawmaker currently in pre-trial detention suspected of massive embezzlement and fraud, has expressed willingness to donate nearly 330 hectares of land[...]