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Bishop Lazarian's Hydro-Plants...And More
Kristine Aghalaryan
00:15, July 17, 2012
When I first
wrote about
Bishop Abraham Lazarian's link to the three hydro-electric power
stations in the village of Hermon, Hetq was besieged with comments.
Many came to the rescue of Bishop Lazarian, Primate of the Vayots
Dzor Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, arguing that the
clergyman couldn't possibly have any commercial interests in local
electricity generation.
Tatev Artzrouni, coordinator of the Syunik Benevolent Organization,
also responded, assuring me that the Elegis plant belonged to them and
was constructed by a German company. (Elegis once operated two plants
in Hermon).
It's now time to add a degree of reality to the issue by presenting
some facts.
The Syunik Social Benevolent Organization was registered in 2004. The
founders were Garik Shahgaldyan, Mayis Lazarian and Gevorg Lazarian
(see image below). Let's look at the names in order.
We'll deal with Garik Shahgaldyan later on.
Mayis Lazarian, as readers of the original article will recall, is
the brother of Bishop Lazarian.
And Gevorg Lazarian is...That's right, he's Bishop Abraham; Gevorg is
his pre-ordination first name.
In addition, Gevorg Lazarian, as many of the commentators also
stated, is the founder of the `Gitelik College' in Yeghegnadzor (see
below document).
So, it turns out that Bishop Lazarian actually does have links to the
hydro-plants despite his claims to the contrary.
There another interesting fact about the Syunik Benevolent
Organization.
Because there is no farm equipment to be found in Hermon, a village
with 136 hectares of cultivable land, the organization, in its mission
of benevolence, has stepped into the breach and is hiring out its
harvesting services to the residents.
The price list (see below) is conveniently affixed to the village
municipality's bulletin board.
For instance, village farmers can get one hectare of land tilled for
14,000 AMD. The organization also advertises that it will reap one
hectare of land for 30,000 AMD.
As to the Lazarians' other business ventures, let us note that Mayis
Lazarian also participated in the Karagloukh hydro-plant registered
to the Hermon MAD Ltd. The plant was quickly sold to Ost-el Ltd.
According to Karagloukh Mayor Artour Stepanyan, construction of the
hydro-plant consumed 7 hectares of village land.
`When they laid the pipes they destroyed the entire area,' Stepanyan
told Hetq.
Mayis Lazarian also owns interests in the companies `Getnough hek'
and `Lernayin hek'. It wouldn't surprise us if these companies were to
build hydro-plants in the near future.
We'll cover the other business ventures of the Lazarians in upcoming
articles.
http://hetq.am/eng/investigation/16651/bishop-mkrtchyan%E2%80%99s-hydro-plantsand-more.html
Kristine Aghalaryan
00:15, July 17, 2012
When I first
wrote about
Bishop Abraham Lazarian's link to the three hydro-electric power
stations in the village of Hermon, Hetq was besieged with comments.
Many came to the rescue of Bishop Lazarian, Primate of the Vayots
Dzor Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, arguing that the
clergyman couldn't possibly have any commercial interests in local
electricity generation.
Tatev Artzrouni, coordinator of the Syunik Benevolent Organization,
also responded, assuring me that the Elegis plant belonged to them and
was constructed by a German company. (Elegis once operated two plants
in Hermon).
It's now time to add a degree of reality to the issue by presenting
some facts.
The Syunik Social Benevolent Organization was registered in 2004. The
founders were Garik Shahgaldyan, Mayis Lazarian and Gevorg Lazarian
(see image below). Let's look at the names in order.
We'll deal with Garik Shahgaldyan later on.
Mayis Lazarian, as readers of the original article will recall, is
the brother of Bishop Lazarian.
And Gevorg Lazarian is...That's right, he's Bishop Abraham; Gevorg is
his pre-ordination first name.
In addition, Gevorg Lazarian, as many of the commentators also
stated, is the founder of the `Gitelik College' in Yeghegnadzor (see
below document).
So, it turns out that Bishop Lazarian actually does have links to the
hydro-plants despite his claims to the contrary.
There another interesting fact about the Syunik Benevolent
Organization.
Because there is no farm equipment to be found in Hermon, a village
with 136 hectares of cultivable land, the organization, in its mission
of benevolence, has stepped into the breach and is hiring out its
harvesting services to the residents.
The price list (see below) is conveniently affixed to the village
municipality's bulletin board.
For instance, village farmers can get one hectare of land tilled for
14,000 AMD. The organization also advertises that it will reap one
hectare of land for 30,000 AMD.
As to the Lazarians' other business ventures, let us note that Mayis
Lazarian also participated in the Karagloukh hydro-plant registered
to the Hermon MAD Ltd. The plant was quickly sold to Ost-el Ltd.
According to Karagloukh Mayor Artour Stepanyan, construction of the
hydro-plant consumed 7 hectares of village land.
`When they laid the pipes they destroyed the entire area,' Stepanyan
told Hetq.
Mayis Lazarian also owns interests in the companies `Getnough hek'
and `Lernayin hek'. It wouldn't surprise us if these companies were to
build hydro-plants in the near future.
We'll cover the other business ventures of the Lazarians in upcoming
articles.
http://hetq.am/eng/investigation/16651/bishop-mkrtchyan%E2%80%99s-hydro-plantsand-more.html