Converse Bank has launched a comprehensive package of credit products for the rehabilitation and development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), significantly improving the terms of some types of loans and launching an SME lending campaign.
In regard to the facts presented in 168.am’s publication regarding the actions of Nikol Pashinyan’s assistant Anna Vardapetyan, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Armenia had to immediately launch a criminal case under the elements of Article 308 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, but the Prosecutor General’s Office “threw it off” by forwarding the case to the National Security Service.
Sensational videos were sent to the e-mail address of 168.am. The videos clearly showed Advisor to Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan for Legal Affairs Anna Vardapetyan interfering in the preliminary investigation of the criminal cases launched against businessman, former president of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan and his son, Rafik Hayrapetyan by making corrections in the materials of the cases and, in essence, instructing the key role-players.
In response to the Armenian government’s legislative proposal to deprive the Human Rights Defender’s Office (HRDO) of its financial safeguards and a dramatic increase in harassment of civil society organizations (CSOs) by opponents of democratic reform in Armenia, Freedom House issued the following statement:
