Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and the Civilitas Foundation founded by him have asked a court in Yerevan to halt controversial criminal proceedings launched against them by the Armenian authorities, their lawyers said on Thursday.
They insisted that the money laundering case brought by the National Security Service (NSS) is baseless and politically motivated.
The criminal case was opened on May 25, the day after the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), of which Oskanian is a senior member, announced its decision to pull out of Armenia's ruling coalition. The BHK move was widely construed as a blow to President Serzh Sarkisian.
Armenian News
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