Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer of Armenia Mihran Poghosyan submitted his resignation Monday, April 18. Armenian investigative website Hetq.am and other local media published documents apparently showing that Pogosian was linked to three Panama-registered companies -- Sigtem Real Estates, Hopkinten Trading, and Bango Invest. The three Armenians named in the disclosures — justice-system official Mihran Poghosyan and his uncles Grigor and Mikhail Haroutyunyan — have used shell companies set up in Panama to obtain Armenian government contracts, according to HuffingtonPost. That is at the least a conflict of interest for Poghosyan and probably a violation of Armenian law.…
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