TWO-MONTH IMPRISONMENT TO FORMER MINISTER OF FOREGN AFFAIRS

Panorama.am
19:21 10/05/2007

The first instance Court of Kentron and Nork-Marash communities met
the NSS claim on two-month imprisonment of former Minister of Foreign
Affairs Alexander Arzumanyan. NSS press secretary, Artsvik Baghramyan,
informed Panorama.am about this. It should be noted that as of today
A. Arzumanyan’s arrest lasts already 72 hours.

Earlier the NSS press service informed that as a result of NSS
investigation activities it became clear that during the period from
April 24, 2007 to April 26, 2007 initiators of "Civil disobedience
movement" former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Arzumanyan,
and former Deputy Minister of Defense Vahan Shirkhanyan, being in
Moscow city of RF came to agreement with Levon Grigor Markos, RF
citizen, being under investigation by the criminal case N 62205103 of
the Prosecutor’s Office for financial frauds and pursuing special
aim in Armenian pre-election period, regarding organization of
transference and legalization of money of suspicious origin. It was
fixed particularly that on April 27, 2007 USD 180,000 was transferred
from Moscow by name of 9 placemen, which in fact was envisaged for
them. Criminal proceeding was instituted due to the fact according to
the features of the 3rd part of article 190 of RA Criminal Code. Within
the framework of the criminal case as a result of investigations
conducted in the mentioned persons’ apartments great sum of money
was found in foreign currency.

The case is in the proceedings of NSS Investigation Department.