Prosecutor didn’t attend the court hearing on offshore case (video)
Dispossessed businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan compares his story with Ashot Sukiasyan to Hovhannes Tumanyan’s ballad “Dog and Cat”. “That it gives the fur, and doesn’t receive the cap. I have given my fur, when will I receive the cap? He was laughing and said that it would be, why do you hurry?” said Paylak Hayrapetyan. The Court of General Jurisdiction of Erebuni and Nubarashen Administrative Districts today expected to hear the testimony of Ashot Sukiasyan. But the prosecutor in the case didn’t attend the court hearing and the judge had to postpone the court hearing. Ashot Sukiasyan is charged with large-scale embezzlement and money laundering in a well-known offshore scandal. Ashot Sukiasyan doesn’t plead himself guilty of the charges. Until today the businessman claims that former Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and Archbishop Navasard Kchoyan stand behind everything, so they must be interrogated in the court, “If they aren’t aware, let them come and prove in the court that they aren’t aware.” Ashot Sukiasyan, though, noted during one of the previous sitting that he had falsified the signatures of the former Prime Minister and Archbishop Navasard Kchoyan, “He is telling a lie. The witness said that Kchoyan was in Cyprus, the copy of Prime Minister’s passport was there, they opened enterprises together,” added the businessman. Paylak Hayrapetyan provided all his property to Ashot Sukiasyan without liabilities and contract in order to start diamond processing business in Armenia. The court hearing on the case will continue on April 7.
