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Ashot Sukiasyan: ‘I wrote names of Prime Minister and Archbishop on off-shore document’
Ashot Sukiasyan, who only yesterday was slapped with a number of counts of fraud and money laundering, has emailed Hetq 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 a May 29 article entitled “Cyprus Troika: Who 'Stripped' Businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan of His Assets?” Hetq got hold of the Cyprus registry document in which Soukiasyan, Sargsyan and Kjoyan are named as equal shareholders of Wlispera.
Wlispera appears to have been one of several companies to which AmeriaBank loans were transferred.
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.
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