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Armenia's ex-FM faces 20 years imprisonment - lawyer
tert.am
21:58 - 19.10.12
Tigran Atanesyan, lawyer of Armenia's ex-FM, MP of the Prosperous
Armenia Party (PAP) Vartan Oskanian says that, in the worst-case
scenario, his client may be sentenced to 20 years.
`Of course, no one has called me from the Court of Cassation and told
anything. This is my personal view that it may be the worst to
happen,' he told Tert.am.
The money laundering charges against Vartan Oskanian are not at all
coincidence. This is the `best count' for playing with a person's
reputation.
`This is one of the worst charges in western countries. They have
found the most `suitable' charge for labeling that man because they
know where he comes from,' Atanesyan said.
He rules out any petition for the charges to be re-qualified. `That
would mean that my client pleads guilty of other offences.'
tert.am
21:58 - 19.10.12
Tigran Atanesyan, lawyer of Armenia's ex-FM, MP of the Prosperous
Armenia Party (PAP) Vartan Oskanian says that, in the worst-case
scenario, his client may be sentenced to 20 years.
`Of course, no one has called me from the Court of Cassation and told
anything. This is my personal view that it may be the worst to
happen,' he told Tert.am.
The money laundering charges against Vartan Oskanian are not at all
coincidence. This is the `best count' for playing with a person's
reputation.
`This is one of the worst charges in western countries. They have
found the most `suitable' charge for labeling that man because they
know where he comes from,' Atanesyan said.
He rules out any petition for the charges to be re-qualified. `That
would mean that my client pleads guilty of other offences.'