Nikol Pashinyan: PACE should launch an internal investigation into the corruption scandal "Azerbaijan Laundry".
ArmInfo.In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, an investigation into the corruption scandal, called the "Azerbaijan Laundry", should be launched. "It is necessary to clarify on which principle the decisions were taken in PACE in favor of the Azerbaijani side, because these decisions to some extent triggered the four-day April war last year." This was stated at the briefing in the National Assembly of Armenia by the head of the opposition faction "Elk" Nikol Pashinyan.
The secretary of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun faction Aghvan Vardanyan, referring to the threats of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to leave the Council of Europe, said that all this should not concern Armenia. "We must, as before, work in this structure, fulfill our obligations and not interfere in the affairs of other countries," he said. A new corruption scandal with the participation of Baku has recently surfaced, and it has been dubbed the "Azerbaijan Laundry". According to the facts that surfaced, Azerbaijan, with the help of fictitious companies in the UK, laundered 2.9 billion AMD. This money was used to bribe European politicians who lobbied Azerbaijan's interests in the EU and blocked resolutions condemning human rights violations in the former Soviet republic. Corruption metastases of Azerbaijan did not pass even "Unesco". The other day the main secretary of the organization resigned, as her husband was implicated in this corruption scandal. Even CNN got into the vortex of Azerbaijani corruption intrigues.