Preliminary investigation on scandalous offshore business has been accomplished and the case is sent to the Court of General Jurisdiction of Erebuni and Nubarashen Administrative Districts of Yerevan, to the proceeding of Judge Vardan Grigoryan.
Ashot Sukiasyan is charged in the case for fraudulently obtained large amounts of property rights of another person, legalized large-scale illicit profits, as well as large-scale evasion of taxes, duties and other compulsory payments.
He is charged under Article 190 Part 3 (1), Article 178 Part 3 (1) and Article 205 Part 2 of the RA Criminal Code.
Victims in the case are well known businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan, his son, Vardan Hayrapetyan, and Shaliko Piruzyan.
The first court hearing is set on 24 June.
For information: in 2009, a meeting discussion with participation of the heads of 23 industrial organizations was organized in the office of Nerses Yeritsyan, then the RA Minister of Economy. The meeting was organized under the chairmanship of the former Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. The issue of a USD 500 million worth loan provided by the Russian federation was discussed. It was noted that Russia should provide 100 million of the overall 500 million, in the form of diamonds’ raw, and the repayment of the loan should be made by the already shaped diamonds.
Businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan offered to pawn his $ 33 million worthy immovable property to take a loan of USD 12 million from “Ameriabank”, and to import with it cheaper diamonds from Sierra Leone African Republic. “Ameriabank” provided USD 10 million to the LLC, which belonged to Ashot Sukiasyan. The bank did not follow whether the LLC fulfilled the loan commitments. Eventually, based on the failure to meet the loan obligations to the bank, “Ameriabank” sold Paylak Hayrapetyan’s mortgaged property.
Note: The suspect or the accused of the alleged offence is deemed innocent unless his or her innocence is proved by virtue of the effective court verdict in the manner prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia.
