The Armenian Prosecutor General's Office has denied that U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations officers visited the country to investigate a case on an Armenian criminal gang located in the United States.
An organized group of some 40 members of Armenian descent were arrested in New York in October on suspicion of stealing information on thousands of the U.S. doctors and patients in order to siphon off millions of dollars from social medical organizations.
According to preliminary information, the suspects embezzled approximately $162 million.
Citing its own sources, Yerevan's Jamanak newspaper reported on November 9, that eight FBI officials under an agreement with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan had arrived in Armenia to collect information from the State Revenue Committee, State Committee of the Real Estate Cadastre, as well as several Armenian banks focusing on Armenian-Cyprus money transfers.
"The Armenian side did not receive from the United States, and particularly from the FBI, any request for aid in an investigation," a Prosecutor General's Office spokeswoman, Sona Truzyan, said, adding that the material printed in Jamanak was pure fiction.
YEREVAN, November 26 (RIA Novosti)
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