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Mormons and Oskanian Case
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country26571.html
Published: 12:26:14 - 16/06/2012
The Hraparak Daily wrote that on June 17 the conference of followers
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days, the Mormons,
will be held in which a lot of Mormons from the United States will
participate.
This conference is interesting in the context of the latest domestic
developments in Armenia. On May 25 a case was brought against Vartan
Oskanian, the ex-foreign minister of Armenia. He is suspected of money
laundering, and the donor of the money is John Huntsman, the head of
the Church of Mormons.
This man has implemented a number of projects in Armenia since 1988,
including the establishment of the factory of concrete constructions.
He was in close contacts with different high-ranking officials of
different times.
In connection with the `case' of Vartan Oskanian and the Civilitas
Foundation the press came back to the circumstance of Mormons, mainly
negatively, in which connection the director of the Civilitas Salpi
Ghazarian wondered what they will do when the United States elects a
Mormon president.
The question is topical because the U.S. presidential candidate Mitt
Romney is a Mormon and in this stage of the campaign he is ahead of
Obama. Experts say Oskanian's case might be somehow related to the
U.S. internecine affairs, bringing the example of Bryza whose
nomination as ambassador to Baku was not affirmed using the Armenian
lobby which considered Bryza a pro-Turkish diplomat.
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country26571.html
Published: 12:26:14 - 16/06/2012
The Hraparak Daily wrote that on June 17 the conference of followers
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days, the Mormons,
will be held in which a lot of Mormons from the United States will
participate.
This conference is interesting in the context of the latest domestic
developments in Armenia. On May 25 a case was brought against Vartan
Oskanian, the ex-foreign minister of Armenia. He is suspected of money
laundering, and the donor of the money is John Huntsman, the head of
the Church of Mormons.
This man has implemented a number of projects in Armenia since 1988,
including the establishment of the factory of concrete constructions.
He was in close contacts with different high-ranking officials of
different times.
In connection with the `case' of Vartan Oskanian and the Civilitas
Foundation the press came back to the circumstance of Mormons, mainly
negatively, in which connection the director of the Civilitas Salpi
Ghazarian wondered what they will do when the United States elects a
Mormon president.
The question is topical because the U.S. presidential candidate Mitt
Romney is a Mormon and in this stage of the campaign he is ahead of
Obama. Experts say Oskanian's case might be somehow related to the
U.S. internecine affairs, bringing the example of Bryza whose
nomination as ambassador to Baku was not affirmed using the Armenian
lobby which considered Bryza a pro-Turkish diplomat.