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    A FAMILY AFFAIR: BUSINESS INTERESTS OF PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

    Grisha Balasanyan

    12:32, February 24, 2015

    While Armenia's National Assembly President Galust Sahakyan has
    consistently declared that he isn't engaged in business, he has
    conveniently hidden the fact that his wife and sons (also in
    government) are.

    It would be the apex of naiveté to believe that Sahakyan lives merely
    off his government salary or that his family members, due to sheer
    due diligence alone and without abusing their personal contacts in
    government, have become owners of various companies.

    Ever since 2011, Sahakyan (who was appointed speaker of the parliament
    in April 2014, has only listed as revenue his government wages and
    pensions when filling out the financial disclosure forms he's mandated
    to file.

    Combined, these have hovered around 3.6 million AMD annually
    (US$7,500).

    Galust Sahakyan's wife Zhanna Aghababyan has also declared her
    dividends in addition to her cash holdings. Most of her revenues are
    derived from dividends and the rest from wages and pensions.

    Zhanna Aghababyan - Financial Disclosures

    2011

    2012

    2013

    Cash holdings

    AMD

    29,530,000

    60,785,765

    75,785,765

    USD

    0

    0

    0

    Revenues (AMD)

    31,961,036

    31,255,765

    30,488,000

    Of which dividends amount to:

    30,660,000

    29,606,400

    28,500,000

    Hetq contacted the National Assembly's Press and Public Affairs
    Department to find out what companies are the sources of these
    dividends. The department replied that the parliament isn't privy to
    such information.

    Naturally, Galust Sahakyan knows the companies issuing dividends to
    his wife. It's another question whether it's in his best interest to
    divulge their names.

    The Business of Zhanna Aghababyan and the Family of the Deputy Minister
    of Health

    Aroghj Apaga Bzhshkakan Kentron Ltd. (Healthy Future Medical Center)
    was established in 2006. Zhanna Aghababyan and Lilit Gasparyan own 50%
    apiece. Gasparyan is the director of the Vagharshabat Polyclinic and
    the wife of Deputy Health Minister Vahan Poghosyan. The company is
    managed by Vahan Poghosyan's son Edgar.

    The corporate address is registered in Etchmiadzin.

    Medipriz Ltd., established in 2006, is equally owned by two
    shareholders - Zhanna Harutyunyan and Vahram Harutyunyan. In fact,
    Zhanna Harutyunyan is none other than Hovik Abrahamyan's wife Zhanna
    Aghababyan. (For some inexplicable reason her last name appears as
    Harutyunyan in the state corporate registry). She also serves as
    company director.

    Zhanna Aghababyan and Sons

    There isn't much information regarding the business activities of
    the parliament speaker's wife and two sons.

    What we do know is that a company called J.D.A.S. Ltd. is registered
    to Zhanna Aghababyan (34%) and her son Tigran Sahakyan (66%). Tigran
    serves as a Deputy Minister of Health.

    Taking a look at Tigran Sahakyan's financial disclosures, we are
    struck by his large cash holdings and the fact that rental fees make
    up the bulk of his revenues.

    Tigran Sahakyan's Financial Disclosures

    2011

    2012

    2013

    Cash holdings

    AMD

    43,740,000

    84,445,517

    85,831,617

    USD

    0

    0

    0

    Revenues (AMD)

    29,728,202

    51,033,548

    7,386,100

    Of which rents amount to:

    26,917,710

    48,600,000

    4,929,750

    Hayr yev vordi Sahakyanner CJSC, established in 2009, is another
    company owned by the Sahakyan family.

    NAREK 84 Ltd., of which 50% is owned by Galust Sahakyan's son Tigran,
    is involved in the trade of textiles, foodstuffs, shoes, clothes and
    construction materials.

    Transportation routes owned by the Sahakyans and their close friends

    Bus route 57 in Yerevan is serviced by Ardini Studio CJSC which owned
    by Galust Sahakyan's son Arman Sahakyan, who heads the State Property
    Management Department.

    Arman Sahakyan also owns a 50% stake in SA-GHA TRANS, a company that
    operates the #64 minivan route in Yerevan.

    We see from his financial disclosures below that Arman Sahakyan only
    started to list dividends from these companies in 2013. Prior to that,
    most of his declared revenues derived from property rentals.

    Arman Sahakyan's Financial Disclosures

    2011Õ©.

    2012Õ©.

    2013Õ©.

    Cash holdings

    AMD

    95,000,000

    101,500,000

    144,000,000

    USD

    0

    0

    0

    Revenues (AMD)

    24,394,409

    25,926,253

    23,098,775

    Of which rents amount to:

    22,200,000

    16,650,000

    20,682,268 (dividends)

    Arman Sahakyan also owned 45% in a company called Rich Friends Ltd.

    which sells cigarettes in the CIS. He sold his shares in 2013.

    http://hetq.am/eng/news/58692/a-family-affair-business-interests-of-president-of-armenias-national-assembly.html



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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