All that dirty money has to get cleaned somehow!
...Alexander Arzumanyan and the country's former deputy defense minister Vaan Shirkhanyan, founders of the public organization, Civil Disobedience Movement, had agreed with Levon Markos, a Russian national, who has been wanted for financial fraud since 2005, to transfer and launder money in April. It was established that on April 27 the three offenders transferred $180,000 to nine front parties through a bank in Yerevan.Filthy. Disgusting. Shameful.
Last Saturday investigators found foreign currency in the two former politician's flats, including $55,400 in cash in Arzumanyan's apartment.
Source: RIA Novosti
2 comments:
You know that you should take such accusations by the Armenian KGB with a grain of salt when it comes to the alleged crimes of outspoken oppositionists right before the elections.
I really don't believe any of it, particularly as it applies to Arzoumanian. I knew him personally when he was the Permanent Rep. to the UN, and one thing's for sure: he may not be likeable, but when it comes to money matters he is honest and precise almost to the point of being anal. So, to accuse him of money laundering is just, well, absurd. Beyond this, though, you can just see how he's outsmarting the folks who arrested him... He's going to get tons of political mileage from this, following on a tradition in Armenia where political inprisonment is a way of gaining legitimacy. He's been there, done that.
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