A Hetq source at AmeriaBank claims that three weeks ago a team of auditors was sent from Moscow to look into loans made by the bank that eventually “disappeared” in a maze of offshore translations.
Yesterday, Hetq reported that AmeriaBank has started to sell-off properties belonging to Paylak Hayrapetyan that were put up as collateral by Ashot Sukiasyan.
Paylak Hayrapetyan is not a happy man, given that Bon Armenia LLC. has taken title to three of his properties that had been put up as collateral with AmeriaBank in a government-backed program to transform Armenia into a world center for the polishing and sale of diamonds.
Had the bank done its homework in the first place, it would have revealed that Sukiasyan used the money to purchase large quantities of gold, a Bentley automobile, a house, and to invest in construction and in Metaks Group Ltd., among others.
On July 2, RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan personally handed some twenty legal requests to his Cypriot counterpart, Petros Clerides, asking that Cypriot law enforcement agencies look into the matter.
Official documents obtained by Hetq have revealed the name of Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan (Primate of the Ararat Diocese) as a shareholder in an offshore company, Wilspera Holdings Ltd., allegedly involved in some shady financial transactions.
Dzoragyugh Production Cooperative, owned by Ashot Sukiasyan, $9,370,450 of the loans issued by AmeriaBank were transferred to the accounts of several offshore companies held at the Hellenic Bank Publik Company of Cyprus.
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.
Davi Sargsyan quickly retorted that such allegations were falsehoods and that the prime minister had applied to the General Prosecutor’s Office, requesting that it investigate how his name appeared on the Cyprus registry document of a certain company.