YEREVAN, November 5, /ARKA/. Armenia’s Central Bank denied today media reports claiming that some high-level government officials were involved in money-laundering scams. The Central Bank said in a statement that its Center for Financial Monitoring, empowered to fight money-laundering and financing of terrorism, collects and analyzes on a daily basis all related information.

On October 29 Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian said government officials, accused by a parliament member of money laundering, must give public explanations. According to the prime minister, in an interview to an Armenian newspaper, ‘168 Zham’ (168 Hours), a non-partisan parliament member Viktor Dalakian said he knows that some government officials are engaged in money-laundering operations.
“This is a signal to prosecutors and the Central Bank to give public explanations to Viktor Dalakian’s statement,’ Tigran Sarkisian said, adding that Dalakian’s statement is ‘a serious signal for the government to step up its efforts for revealing money-laundering instances.

‘Over the last four years, since its inception, the Center for Financial Monitoring that receives information from law-enforcement agencies, other government bodies with controlling powers, as well as from its foreign partners about suspicious transactions, has never received any report that high-level Armenian government officials were involved in money laundering operations,’ the statement said.

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