According to the RA Prosecutor General’s office, the group of investigators that left for Moscow has questioned nine citizens, in each of whose names 19,800 dollars was sent to Yerevan, part of the case in which former RA Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanyan is accused of “money-laundering”. The questioned, according to the prosecutor’s office, said that they knew nothing of the money and that they have not made the transfers. On this occasion, Arzumanyan’s attorney, Hovik Arsenyan, said that no crime has been committed. In fact, according to Arsenyan, an interest rate is paid when making a transfer up to 20,000 dollars, without additional payments, and that is why the money was sent partially and under different names.
“It is most probable that by having the photocopies of the passports of the Armenian citizens, the banker sent the money under their names, and those people could not have known about that,” said Arsenyan to “panorama.am”. He believes that the prosecutor’s staff must show professionalism and find out whether or not there have been other transfers from the bank under the names of those people.
“I am certain that by using the passport copies of those people, many such transfers will be made. The most important thing is that the preliminary investigative body was not able and is not able to prove that that money has been received illegally,” said Arsenyan.