Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian was again summoned to Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) on Monday in his continuing prosecution on charges which he considers politically motivated.
As was the case during his previous visits to the NSS headquarters in Yerevan, Oskanian refused to give testimony on the controversial fraud case that was brought shortly after he joined the opposition-leaning Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) early this year.
According to his lawyer Tigran Atanesian, NSS investigators sought to question him in connection with allegations by the Civilitas Foundation, a think-tank founded by Oskanian, that the Armenian authorities started persecuting him in 2009. Atanesian said they were specifically interested in Civilitas claims that an unspecified Armenian commercial bank revoked its decision to appoint Oskanian as a member of its board under government pressure.
Armenian News
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