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    CIVILITAS FOUNDATION'S PROPERTY DOCUMENTS SEIZED

    tert.am
    10.10.12

    Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) has made a decision to
    confiscate property documents from the Civilitas Foundation.

    According to a press release by the organization, the decision, whose
    copy was submitted to Civilitas by a deputy head of the Service, M.

    Hambardzumyan, calls for confiscating the documents allowing the
    transfer and possession of the USD 577 897 and AMD 11 494 000 (about
    $3,000) to the Foundation from the Huntsman International LLC and
    Polymer Materials Inc., and the USD 1,427,000 through the founder
    and head of the Civilitas Trusteeship Board, Vartan Oskanian. The
    documents include decisions and minutes by the Trusteeship Board, as
    well as any other papers that could deal with the above transactions
    (with the exception of accountancy documents justifying the
    administrative-managerial costs).

    Oskanian, who was Armenia's foreign minister from 1998 until 2008,
    quit the Civilitas board in May to join the Prosperous Armenia party
    and run for parliament. On May 25, the National Security Council
    launched a money laundering proceeding against Civilatas, accusing
    the foundation of a failure to report a $1.5 million donation to the
    tax authorities. Oskanian's lawyer later asked a Yerevan district the
    court to halt the proceeding but his motion was rejected. Prosecutor
    General Avghan Hovsepyan later asked the National Assembly to consider
    stripping the ex minister of minister of mandate. His petition received
    the parliament's approval last week, with the opposition MPs boycotting
    the voting.

    Tert.am has learned from the Foundation that NSS interrogators visited
    the Civilitas on Wednesday to confiscate documents concerning Oskanian
    and the criminal proceeding.

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