Monday, March 2 2020 18:29

ArmInfo. Hayk Grigoryan, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Armenia, met today with Italian Vice-Ambassador to Armenia Annarosa Colangelo and attache of  the Italian Embassy in Armenia and Russia, Brigadier General of the  Financial Guard Maurizio Muskara. 

According to the press service of the RA IC, the meeting discussed  the interaction of the Armenian and Italian authorized structures in  the sensitive criminal case of the illegal adoption of children by  citizens of Italy in Armenia, as well as the provision of legal  assistance. The interlocutors discussed a number of other issues of   mutual interest.  As ArmInfo previously reported, the National  Security Service of Armenia revealed the facts of illegal adoption of  over 30 children by Italian citizens.

"Two citizens of Armenia, using their contacts in one of the  republican obstetric institutions, a number of departments, as well  as in orphanages organized the illegal adoption of over 30 children  by Italian citizens," the statement posted on the NSS website last  November said. A criminal case was opened on the fact of the crime in  the NSS investigation department. In the framework of the criminal  case, the chief gynecologist of Armenia Razmik Abrahamyan was  detained.  Razmik Abrahamyan is one of the most famous doctors in the  country, since 1997 he is the chief obstetrician- gynecologist of  Armenia.