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    ARMENIA'S FORMER FM HURT BY HIS PARTY LEADER'S ABSENCE FROM PARLIAMENTARY HEARING - NEWSPAPER

    news.am
    October 02, 2012 | 07:41

    YEREVAN. - The Civilitas Foundation founder, former FM, and currently
    Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) MP Vartan Oskanian was "alone" on
    Monday and, understandably, very concerned and in a terribly bad mood,
    Hraparak daily writes.

    "He was sitting alone in his [National Assembly (NA)] office until
    the start of the session, [and] the only person from PAP [NA Faction]
    who was caringly entering [to] and leaving [from Oskanian's office]
    was [United Labor Party Chairman] Gurgen Arsenyan. Subsequently,
    Oskanian himself went to Arsenyan's VIP office, where they discussed
    the list of those who [could] 'vote in favor' [of the petition].

    According to our sources, he [that is, Oskanian] is hurt from
    [PAP leader] Gagik Tsarukyan's absence [during the NA discussions]
    because he understands that he could be arrested in case of political
    necessity, and the only person who can obstruct this is not along
    his side when needed," Hraparak writes.

    To note, the NA is discussing the Prosecutor General's formal petition
    to include Vartan Oskanian as a defendant in a criminal lawsuit.

    As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on May 25 the National
    Security Service (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.

    In addition, as per the NSSPressCenter, The Civilitas Foundation had
    not presented a report on the $2 million allocated for charitable
    purposes.

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