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ARMENIA'S FORMER FM TO APPEAL INVESTIGATOR'S DECISION TO LAUNCH CRIMINAL LAWSUIT
news.am
July 12, 2012 | 10:34
YEREVAN. - The Civilitas Foundation's founder, former FM, and
Prosperous Armenia Party MP Vartan Oskanian's representative, attorney
Tigran Atanesyan has petitioned to the Court, Armenian News-NEWS.am
learned from Pastinfo.
They are appealing the investigator's decision to open a criminal
lawsuit by the National Security Service (NSS). And Oskanian is a
witness in this case.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on May 25 the NSS Department
of Investigation launched a criminal lawsuit on charges of money
laundering with respect to The Civilitas Foundation, and Vartan
Oskanian is mentioned in this connection.
And, in this regard, Oskanian had written the following in his
Facebook account:
"It was apparent from the content of NSS' statement issued that
I am being questioned as a suspect and not as a witness along the
lines of the criminal lawsuit that is launched. Considering this,
I decided to use my constitutional right and not to testify."
Also, he had stated this is political persecution.
news.am
July 12, 2012 | 10:34
YEREVAN. - The Civilitas Foundation's founder, former FM, and
Prosperous Armenia Party MP Vartan Oskanian's representative, attorney
Tigran Atanesyan has petitioned to the Court, Armenian News-NEWS.am
learned from Pastinfo.
They are appealing the investigator's decision to open a criminal
lawsuit by the National Security Service (NSS). And Oskanian is a
witness in this case.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on May 25 the NSS Department
of Investigation launched a criminal lawsuit on charges of money
laundering with respect to The Civilitas Foundation, and Vartan
Oskanian is mentioned in this connection.
And, in this regard, Oskanian had written the following in his
Facebook account:
"It was apparent from the content of NSS' statement issued that
I am being questioned as a suspect and not as a witness along the
lines of the criminal lawsuit that is launched. Considering this,
I decided to use my constitutional right and not to testify."
Also, he had stated this is political persecution.