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V. OSKANYAN COMMENTS ON RUMORS ABOUT HIS HOUSE IN CALIFORNIA
http://times.am/?l=en&p=8712
Armenian former Minister of Foreign Affairs, member of the "Prosperous
Armenia" party, chairman of the "Civilitas" foundation Vardan Oskanian
has presented an explanation over his house in Los- Angeles in his
Facebook page. Oskanian's name and his properties are very much
discussed in Armenian media recently because of the accusations by
Armenian National Security Service.
Vardan Oskanian and foundation by him are accused in money laundry.
Oskanian especially writes:
"Some media representatives have already started blackmailing me. One
of them put the photo of my house in California and wrote that I have
bought it in 1996 (when I was Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs)
with 350.000 USD and asked how I have bought it?
Let me see first that I bought this house on 1988, when the USSR
still existed and Armenia was not an independent state yet. I bought
it not with 350.000 USD but with 500.000 USD. My son, Arman, was born
in this house in 1988.
The second, let me tell those who do not know me that my family has
been engaged in jewelery and worked out diamond for long years. The
main activities were in Aleppo and then the branches were transferred
to Lebanon, Belgium and the USA. Let me say that our family has been
the leader in this sphere. So everyone can understand that the family
which has been engaged in jewelery for 150 years should have some
property from this business.
But this was not the essential, I have told this just by the way.
The essential point is that I have left such comfortable life in the
USA since 1991 and have come to Armenia as I have had a dream and aim.
I believed in the idea. And now just opposite all of these events,
nothing has been changed. I continue believing that it is possible
to build the country which we dream of. And if something is changed
so it is my dream which has become stronger".
http://times.am/?l=en&p=8712
Armenian former Minister of Foreign Affairs, member of the "Prosperous
Armenia" party, chairman of the "Civilitas" foundation Vardan Oskanian
has presented an explanation over his house in Los- Angeles in his
Facebook page. Oskanian's name and his properties are very much
discussed in Armenian media recently because of the accusations by
Armenian National Security Service.
Vardan Oskanian and foundation by him are accused in money laundry.
Oskanian especially writes:
"Some media representatives have already started blackmailing me. One
of them put the photo of my house in California and wrote that I have
bought it in 1996 (when I was Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs)
with 350.000 USD and asked how I have bought it?
Let me see first that I bought this house on 1988, when the USSR
still existed and Armenia was not an independent state yet. I bought
it not with 350.000 USD but with 500.000 USD. My son, Arman, was born
in this house in 1988.
The second, let me tell those who do not know me that my family has
been engaged in jewelery and worked out diamond for long years. The
main activities were in Aleppo and then the branches were transferred
to Lebanon, Belgium and the USA. Let me say that our family has been
the leader in this sphere. So everyone can understand that the family
which has been engaged in jewelery for 150 years should have some
property from this business.
But this was not the essential, I have told this just by the way.
The essential point is that I have left such comfortable life in the
USA since 1991 and have come to Armenia as I have had a dream and aim.
I believed in the idea. And now just opposite all of these events,
nothing has been changed. I continue believing that it is possible
to build the country which we dream of. And if something is changed
so it is my dream which has become stronger".