Vartan Oskanian is not going to bear witness to National Security Service about money laundering case

• Monday, October 8, 13:01

 Ex-foreign minister of Armenia, a deputy from the Prosperous Armenia Party, Vartan Oskanian, said at his Facebook page that he is not going to bear witness to National Security Service about the case on money laundering by the Civilitas Foundation set up by him.

He also added that in compliance with the summons sent to him, he will go to the NSS on 8 October at 12:00 PM, but is not going to bear witness there. "Today, not only people do not believe that Oskanyan was dealing with money laundering and pocketing, but also the "authors" of the case, its customers, investigators and those which satisfied the prosecutor's motion about striping me of immunity. All of them know - all this is absurd", - Oskanyan said.

To recall, on October 2 the National Assembly voted by 64 ballots for, six against, and with one invalid vote in favor of Prosecutor General's petition to include Vartan Oskanian as a defendant in a criminal lawsuit. On May 25 NSS Department of Investigation filed a criminal lawsuit on charges of money laundering with respect to The Civilitas Foundation.

The NSS Press Center had informed that an investigation is underway in connection with selling the 100-percent shares of the Huntsman Building Products Company for around $2 million, but not informing Armenia's tax authorities about this business deal; not using for charitable purposes $1,135,000 of that amount envisioned for charity; transferring this amount to the bank accounts opened under the names of the Civilitas Foundation's founder Vartan Oskanian, and of the Foundation's Board of Trustees member Tigran Karapetyan; and using some of this amount for private purposes.