Authorities in Yerevan have brushed aside allegations made by opposition media that President Serzh Sarkisian has been in close relations with the purported ringleader of an American-Armenian criminal syndicate busted last week over a large-scale medical insurance fraud.
Armen Kazarian, 46, nicknamed Pzo, was among dozens of immigrants with substantial ties to Armenia charged with filing some $100 million in fake claims to a government health insurance program in what amounted to one of the biggest fraud cases in the U.S. medical sector in recent history.
The indictment in the United States identifies Kazarian as "vor v zakone", in Russian, or a thief in the law — a powerful figure in the criminal underworld of the former Soviet Union.
Armenian News
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