Official hails Armenian money laundering effort

Mediamax news agency
5 May 05

Yerevan, 5 May: No cases of terror funding have been established in
Armenia, Central Bank chairman Tigran Sarkisyan said in Yerevan today.

An international conference “Formation and introduction of a system
of preventing money laundering and terror funding in Armenia” is
being held in Yerevan today, Mediamax news agency reported.

Sarkisyan said that only two attempts at money laundering had been
recorded and immediately cut short in the country. He went on to say
that no-one mentioned in international black lists had been found
in Armenia.

[Passage omitted: OSCE envoy Vladimir Pryakhin praised Armenia for
efforts to combat money laundering]