Samvel Aleksanyan is known as “Lfik Samo”
YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—As part of its declared crackdown on corruption, Armenia’s National Security Service on Wednesday accused a company controlled by a wealthy businessman linked to the former ruling Republican Party of evading millions of dollars in tax payments.
It claimed that Samvel Aleksanyan’s Alex Holding group colluded with the former leadership of the State Revenue Committee to run a tax scam in the country’s largest food supermarket chain owned by it.
The NSS detailed the accusations after raiding the head office of the Yerevan City chain and confiscating documents kept there. It reported no arrests, saying only that senior company executives have been questioned as part of the criminal investigation into “large-scale tax evasionâ€
