ArmInfo.Transparency International appealed to PACE with a request to investigate the possible involvement of Armenia in money laundering schemes along with other countries, the press service of the organization reported.
According to the source, in 2017 it became known that from 2012 to 2014, the ruling circles of Azerbaijan bribed some PACE delegates and made a scheme known as "Azerbaijan Laundromat". "European organizations that have committed money laundering and European officials who provided services to Azerbaijan for money are also to blame for this matter," the report says.
The organization's statement says, in particular, "After the publication of the history of Azerbaijan's Laundromat, Transparency International called on PACE to conduct an independent investigation to identify other countries in the scheme and other cases of buying votes in the organization. PACE, following calls to investigate, set up an independent investigative body, which in April 2018 published its report, which revealed numerous violations of the rules of conduct and corruption.
Certain facts were presented in the report and doubts were expressed with regard to 8 other countries - Armenia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, the Russian Federation, Turkey and Ukraine. Due to limited time and resources, these new charges were not properly investigated.
On June 28, 2018, Transparency International appealed to the newly elected President of PACE, Liliane Maury Pasquier , with a request to expand the mandate of an independent investigative body to examine suspicions against these countries. "