“I bought my car on credit, I have paid for it for 4 years, I bought it in 2007 and I repaid the credit completely last year. I bought it with a bank contract, so it is not like we have much money,” Galust Sahakyan, the leader of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary group, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am when we inquired about his Nissan Maxima and asked to comment on his sons’ being millionaires, even according to official statements of income.
According to Galust Sahakyan, those are provocations, “As for my sons, my family has been working all the time and will work. Let the calumniators understand that one can ensure his positions with hard work. Therefore, Armenia is not a dark country in which Galust Sahakyan has certain positions and thus should seize his opportunities and engage in robbery. They can look into everything, investigate. Therefore, there is no such problem. Moreover, if I have bigger opportunities, I will have more money with hard and honest work and will help more people.”
We inquired whether his sons were not engaged in business, because the income statement of Arman Sahakyan, for example, mentioned more than 24 million AMD and he has around 95 million AMD on his account, and one couldn’t have that only with salary, Galust Sahakyan assured that his sons didn’t have businesses: “My sons go to work in the morning and come back home only at 9 or 10 p.m. They don’t do business. Certainly, I cannot say, they may be shareholders.”
We tried to clear up whether he as the father didn’t know exactly what businesses or shares his sons had, he replied: “Certainly, I do not have a habit of picking pockets of my friends, the society, as well as my sons. I would like it very much, if my sons had shares in many places and were able to provide not only for themselves, but also for the people surrounding them and for those people who apply to us every day.”
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A large part of Arman Sahakyan’s income is from renting. We inquired whether the father knew or not what land his son had, Galust Sahakyan said: “I don’t know whether it is Arman or Tigran Sahakyan, anyway, we have land that we bought many years ago for a very high price, moreover, at the time when people would buy land with vouchers for pennies, we got a place for a large sum of money and through a competition; 5-6 years had passed, before we repaid it.”
Galust Sahakyan also said that one of his daughters-in-law was an oculist, the other was the principal of a nursery school, “The moment I said the principal of a nursery school, you thought “Aha, she may earn a lot of money.” There is a group of journalists who get information and blast Galust Sahakyan.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
