That he is in the list of ten most wealthy persons of Armenia and that Robert Kocharian’s property yields the capital of the “Customs chief”.
The progress discussion of the “National Security Concept” of Armenia was made with the participation of NSC Secretary at the RA President and RA Defense Minister Serge Sargsian. Taking occasion, the journalists tried to get answers from S. Sargsian about some questions out of theme.
In answer to the question about Jirayr Seyfilian and expressing his own opinion about him, he said: “He was one of those thousands who have fought in Karabakh. Yes, he has fought. But if you think that you can compare him with Monte Melkonian or other commanders, it is your problem. It’s a matter of taste.”
S. Sargsian has also replied to the list of ten most wealthy persons of Armenia, which has been published in the Armenian version of “Forbs Armenia” magazine. Serge Sargsian’s name fills the 8th horizontal. In answer to the journalist’s question whether he is so wealthy, S. Sargsian has declared that he has heard about that magazine but he hasn’t seen and don’t know how much money he owns according to it. He gave a rhetorical question, instead: “When see, observe, am I one of ten wealthy persons of Armenia. Don’t you know? If there are other people, too, businessmen, for example”.
We should remind that according to the information in the press, S. Sargsian has made a fortune of 150$million. The Defense Minister got surprised at that figure: “That’s all? Milliards have also bee alluded to me”.
But according to “Azatutiun” b/s, he has been surprised when he has been informed that RA President Robert Kocharian, according to that list, has less property than Armen Avetisian, the head of Customs Committee.
By the way, according to ‘Mediamax”, “Forbs” editor-in-chief Petros Ghazarian has declared that the first issue of the magazine, the presentation of which was yesterday is “New Year issue, and what has published there, is a New Year joke”.