ARMENIA PM AMID NEW SCANDAL? – NEWSPAPER

February 20, 2014 | 09:02

YEREVAN. – The Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe (FAAE) Legal
Committee issued the results of the studies conducted with respect
to Nairit chemical [rubber] plant of Armenian capital city Yerevan,
Chorrord Ishkhanutyun weekly reports

“The committee noted that, from 2006 to this day, an ‘uneducated’
management, an intentional damage was carried at Nairit, as a result
of which 100 million dollars of debts were accumulated, [and] as a
result of wrong management, there were fires and explosions, loss of
human lives at the plant.

“[And] Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan was considered the
main person responsible for the fraud around Nairit,” Chorrord
Ishkhanutyun writes.

Separately, Hetq.am had written earlier that Tigran Sargsyan,
Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan–Vicar General of the Araratian Pontifical
Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church–, and “jeweler” Ashot
Sukiasyan were shareholders in an offshore company called Wlispera
Holdings Limited, which is registered in Cyprus. Sargsyan and Kjoyan,
however, denied their involvement in such a company.