Sukiasyan wrote names of Prime Minister and Archbishop on document

Businessman Ashot Sukiasyan has emailed Hetq.am a copy of a letter he sent to Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan confessing that it was he who added the names of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan to a registry document of an off-shore company called Wlispera Holdings Limited.

In his letter to the Prosecutor General, Ashot Sukiasyan writes that he founded Wlispera and that he recorded the names of Sargsyan and Kjoyan as equal shareholders without their knowledge.

Sukiasyan says that he used their names in order to give the appearance that his business was backed by such influential people, thus avoiding any outside hassle or interference.

He says that it never dawned on him that what he did would have such consequences.

Let us remind you that in a May 29 article entitled “The Cyprus Troyka: Who ‘Stripped’ Businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan of His Assets?” Sargsyan and Kjoyan are named as equal shareholders of Wlispera. In response to the article, the spokesman for the Prime Minister said that Tigran Sargsyan has nothing to do with Wlispera and that he intended to apply to the Prosecutor General.

Tigran Sargsyan then applied to the Prosecutor General with the request to find out who registered Wlispera Holding Limited and how his name was put on the list of the company’s shareholders.