Anna Hakobyan, the wife of the Armenian Prime Minister, has been “accused of draining 3.4 million dollars from a children’s cancer fund”. At least, that’s what the Trump Fact News account declared on X on August 14.
The French-language account with more than 150,000 followers backs up its claims with a one-and-a-half-minute video edit. The video accuses Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's wife, Anna Hakobyan, of embezzling this sum while chairing City of Smile – a charity dedicated to supporting children with cancer – between 2018 and 2020.
In a second tweet, Trump Fact News also shared a link to an article on the Euleaks[.]eu website, that supposedly revealed the information.
The article and the video claim that the accusations come from Armenian lawyer Sergei Harutyunyan. Since late June, Harutyunyan has been defending Armenian bishop Bagrat Galstanyan, who succeeded Hakobyan as head of the City of Smile foundation in 2020.
Galstanyan was arrested on June 25 on suspicion of a coup and became one of Pashinyan’s main political opponents. But the lawyer says Galstanyan was arrested just as he was about to expose the alleged corruption “scandal” within the foundation.
Several other pro-Trump accounts also shared the allegations, including @IvankaNews, the English-language account supporting the daughter of the American president, whose post garnered 350,000 views. Other online users with pro-Russian leanings, such as the Portuguese user Leandro Romao, also shared what...
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