YEREVAN. – Opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) bloc will decide its position on the vote on Armenia’s Attorney General Aghvan Hovsepyan’s petition submitted to the Parliament for obtaining its approval to remove former FM, MP Vartan Oskanian’s parliamentary immunity, after the parliamentary discussions on the issue on Oct. 1, ANC MP Gagik Jhangiryan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

To note, Armenia’s Attorney General Aghvan Hovsepyan submitted a petition to the Parliament on Thursday to obtain MPs approval to remove Vartan Oskanian’s parliamentary immunity to include him as a defendant in the criminal lawsuit filed by the Armenian National Security Service (NSS). Also, Attorney General’s Spokesperson Sona Truzyan claimed that the petition refers solely to including him as a defendant in the lawsuit and not to detaining him.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on May 25 the NSS Department of Investigation filed a criminal lawsuit on charges of money laundering with respect to The Civilitas Foundation.

The NSS press center had informed that an investigation is underway in connection with selling the 100-percent shares of the Huntsman Building Products Company for around $ 2 million, but not informing Armenia’s tax authorities about this business deal; not using for charitable purposes $1,135,000 of that amount envisioned for charity; transferring this amount to the bank accounts opened under the names of the Civilitas Foundation’s founder – former FM and currently Prosperous Armenia Party MP – Vartan Oskanian,  and of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees member Tigran Karapetyan; and using part of this funds for private purposes.

In addition, according to the NSS press center, the Civilitas Foundation had not presented a report on the $2 million allocated for charitable purposes.