TRANSPARENCY OR COVER-UP: HOW WILL THE ASSEMBLY OF BISHOPS HANDLE THE KJOYAN “AFFFAIR”?

[ Part 2.2: “Attached Text” ]

Edik Baghdasaryan

[29584.jpg] 16:30, September 24, 2013

While attending yesterday’s Assembly of Bishops in Etchmiadzin, a
reporter from the Arajin Lratvakan new site asked Ararat Diocesan Locum
Tenens Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan to comment about his involvement
in the Cyprus offshore scandal recently uncovered by Hetq.

–   Your Holiness, you’ve never issued a denial about the offshore
scandal.

–   I have already answered that question.

–   But why haven’t you issued any clarification?

–   What is there to clarify? Are there any charges against me to
clarify? Are there any charges against me to clarify?

I am at a loss for words as to why Navasard (Samvel) Kjoyan has yet to
be questioned by law enforcement regarding the fact that he appears on
Cypriot Registry documents as a shareholder in two offshore companies.

The Archbishop is a close friend of diamond jeweler Ashot Sukiasyan,
who is now on the run and being sought by Armenian Police, having
been charged with embezzling millions in loans from AmeriaBank.

In fact, Kjoyan and Sukiasyan are known to have travelled to Cyprus
together.

What I also find incomprehensible is why law enforcement hasn’t yet
seized the Bentley limousine that Sukiasyan gave to Kjoyan as a gift.

Sukiasyan purchased the half million dollar car with loan money he
got from AmeriaBank and for which he placed assets belonging to Paylak
Hayrapetyan as collateral.

The bishops attending the meeting in Etchmiadzin should be raising
the question as to why Kjoyan, a high ranking clergyman, receives
such expensive gifts while 40% of his flock lives in poverty.

After all, what else is left for the bishops to discuss if not the
corruption in their ranks?

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress