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BUSINESSMAN ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN 'OFFSHORE SCANDAL' EXTRADITED TO ARMENIA
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NEWS | 20.06.14 | 11:43
Businessman Ashot Sukiasyan, who is allegedly involved in the so-called
'offshore scandal' in which Armenia's former prime minister Tigran
Sargsyan and a high-ranking church official also figured according
to revelations in media, was extradited to Armenia on Thursday.
Sukiasyan is now at the Yerevan-Kentron penitentiary, according to
local media reports.
Armenian authorities requested the extradition of Sukiasyan soon after
the businessman was arrested in Tbilisi in early February. The man was
on the Interpol list after another businessman, Paylak Hayrapetyan,
made a claim against him and a court in Armenia issued an arrest
warrant.
After an investigation Sukiasyan was charged with large-scale fraud,
large-scale property damage and money laundry. In particular, he is
accused of deceiving Hayrapetyan by talking him into borrowing money
from a local bank, then took the money for allegedly importing rough
diamonds from Sierra Leone, but escaped with it.
Last year Hetq.am, an Armenian online magazine, published a story
according to which together with Sukiasyan, Armenia's former Prime
Minister Tigran Sargsyan and head of the Ararat Diocese, Archbishop
Navasard Kchoyan are co-owners of a Cyprus-registered offshore company
that allegedly had a direct connection with businessman Hayrapetyan's
bankruptcy. Both Sargsyan and Kchoyan have repeatedly denied having
anything to do with the offshore company in question.
http://armenianow.com/news/55428/armenia_offshore_scandal_businessman_ashot_sukiasy an_extradition
NEWS | 20.06.14 | 11:43
Businessman Ashot Sukiasyan, who is allegedly involved in the so-called
'offshore scandal' in which Armenia's former prime minister Tigran
Sargsyan and a high-ranking church official also figured according
to revelations in media, was extradited to Armenia on Thursday.
Sukiasyan is now at the Yerevan-Kentron penitentiary, according to
local media reports.
Armenian authorities requested the extradition of Sukiasyan soon after
the businessman was arrested in Tbilisi in early February. The man was
on the Interpol list after another businessman, Paylak Hayrapetyan,
made a claim against him and a court in Armenia issued an arrest
warrant.
After an investigation Sukiasyan was charged with large-scale fraud,
large-scale property damage and money laundry. In particular, he is
accused of deceiving Hayrapetyan by talking him into borrowing money
from a local bank, then took the money for allegedly importing rough
diamonds from Sierra Leone, but escaped with it.
Last year Hetq.am, an Armenian online magazine, published a story
according to which together with Sukiasyan, Armenia's former Prime
Minister Tigran Sargsyan and head of the Ararat Diocese, Archbishop
Navasard Kchoyan are co-owners of a Cyprus-registered offshore company
that allegedly had a direct connection with businessman Hayrapetyan's
bankruptcy. Both Sargsyan and Kchoyan have repeatedly denied having
anything to do with the offshore company in question.