Armenian-Canadian joint venture mining company’s former director and wife sue

YEREVAN. – Armenian Kapan city’s Deno Gold Mining Company’s (DGMC) former General Director Robert Falletta and his wife and Company’s former employee Farida Falletta filed a petition, with Syunik Region’s court, demanding the Company pay their salaries, Aravot daily writes.    

“Farida Falletta demands from the Company $18,000 Canadian ($17,326 US) (tax-exempt and without other obligatory payments) for January-June 2011, and Robert Falletta demands 52 million drams ($139,996).    

We informed on February 27 that Chief Operating Officer Rick Howes of the Canadian Dundee Precious Metals company, which owns DGMC, had visited Kapan and, on the following day, dismissed Robert Falletta from his duties as General Director,” Aravot daily writes.