Businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan considers the fact of extradition of one of the key figures of offshore scandal, Ashot Sukiasyan, yesterday, from Georgia to Armenia, a big progress in offshore affairs. We inquired from the businessman whether he does not have fear Ashot Sukiasyan will become a scapegoat in the offshore business, and the involvement of other culprits will remains unconfirmed by law enforcements, given the fact that Ashot Sukiasyan was also constantly denying Kchoyan’s and former prime minister’s involvement, and was taking on the responsibility.
“If Sukiasyan wants and get lost without them: Tigran Sargsyan and Navasard Kchoyan, let him get lost, it’s up to him. If he want to get lost, let him keep insisting that the former prime minister and Kchoyan are associated with this case. And if the prime minister had not gone to the bank, which banker would issue 12 million dollars for Africa. In addition, Ashot Sukiasyan has also called me and said that he is going to the bank with the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister has said that the bank will prepare a business plan within 5 days and the 12 million dollars by 12 percent will be released and 6000 dollars will be left to the bank for preparing the business plan,” told Mr. Hayrapetyan, in the conversation with Aravot.am.
He excluded the possibility of former prime minister’s coming out of the offshore scandal “dry”, recalling the Cyprus Attorney General Petros Clerides’s assurance that it is impossible to register someone as an offshore company shareholder without the permission of given person. “The prosecutor also argued that if not their signatures, these enterprises cannot be obtained, then millions were transferred to these accounts, and then come back to Armenia, it is excluded.” Mr. Hayrapetyan believes that Ashot Sukiasyan’s extradition to Armenia suggests comprehensive and objective investigation of the case. “The case is already revealed, it should not be disclosed now. Who has allowed sending the money to offshore, the Central Bank, the Security Committee, Ministry of Finance, the Ameria bank Board…? Everything is clear who did what. Simply confrontations are needed. All guilty should be judged that the people and abroad have confidence in making investments here.”
He also said that allegations by the former Prime Minister and the Archbishop Kchoyan that they have nothing to do with the offshore, is incredible. “If their signatures were fabricated, let the prosecution have published that they are fabricated, and they should have said who has done it.”
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