{"id":256072,"date":"2014-07-15T13:10:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T09:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=256072"},"modified":"2014-07-15T13:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T09:10:49","slug":"criminal-case-launched-against-former-armentel-director-for-disappearance-of-500-million-armenian-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/15\/criminal-case-launched-against-former-armentel-director-for-disappearance-of-500-million-armenian-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Case Launched Against Former ArmenTel Director for Disappearance of $500 Million: Armenian Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The criminal case launched at the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia (RA) against former CEO of ArmenTel (brand &quot;Beeline&quot;) Igor Klimko (pictured), in which he is wanted, has an extremely remarkable backstory, reports local daily <em>Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em>. &nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe newspaper notes that ArmenTel received money from foreign operators for servicing telephone calls made to Armenia from abroad. According to the newspaper&#39;s information, instead of being deposited into ArmenTel&#39;s account, this money was transferred to the account of a registered offshore company. From 2009&ndash;2012, when Klimko still headed ArmenTel, hundreds of millions of dollars ($500 million, according to some) &quot;disappeared&quot; this way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;But the most remarkable thing is that these enormous sums, from which taxes should have been paid, could not disappear unnoticed. Knowing about this were very high-ranking Armenian officials, who even, according to our sources, had a personal interest for those funds to disappear, and this story would&#39;ve remained undisclosed if those huge sums circulating in offshore zones didn&#39;t appear in the spotlight of Western special services and if the current ArmenTel owner, the Russian Beeline company, was not consistent in following up on this matter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;According to our information, our law enforcement agencies opened the criminal case under considerations of not appearing on the &#39;black lists&#39; of Russian colleagues and Western special services,&quot; reports the paper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The criminal case launched at the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia (RA) against former CEO of ArmenTel (brand &#8220;Beeline&#8221;) Igor Klimko&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54034,12238,56856],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}