RA Investigative Committee issues international arrest warrant for  ANIF director David Papazyan

ArmInfo.Former director of the Armenian National Interests Fund (ANIF) CJSC David Papazyan will be put on the international wanted list. A preventive measure in the form of arrest has been chosen for him, as reported by the Investigative Committee in response to a written request from Hetq.  Papazyan's photos posted on social networks suggest that he is in London, the publication notes.

Recall that on August 15 it became known that the Prosecutor  General's Office of the Republic of Armenia had initiated a criminal  case against the former director of ANIF CJSC, David Papazyan, the  former director of the Anti-Crisis Investment Fund Entrepreneur+State  CJSC, Bella Manukyan, and the director of CFW CJSC, Karine  Andreasyan.

David Papazyan is facing charges under three articles of the Criminal  Code of the Republic of Armenia:  forgery of documents (Article 457),  money laundering on an especially large scale (Article 296, Part 3,  Clauses 2 and 3), and abuse of office in the private sector (Article  277, Part 2, Clause 2). Karine Andreasyan is also being prosecuted  for on money laundering on an especially large scale, and a travel  ban has been imposed  on her as a preventive measure for her. Bella  Manukyan has been released on bail as a preventive measure and is  facing  charges of forgery of documents and abuse of office. 

It is unclear whether Tigran Avinyan, who served as Chairman of the  Board of Directors of ANIF from 2019 to 2023, has been questioned in  connection with this case. "In order to ensure the normal course of  pre-trial proceedings, the body conducting the proceedings considers  it inappropriate to disclose any other pre-trial information at this  point in the investigation," the Investigative Committee stated in  its response.