ArmInfo.The State Revenue Committee of Armenia has a specific tax administration toolkit applicable to taxpayers, among them may be companies owned by the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharian. On November 7, David Ananyan, Chairman of the State Revenue Committee of Armenia, told reporters on the margins of the fourth regional meeting of the four- day regional meeting in Yerevan that was devoted to a system of preventing erosion of the tax / tax base and withdrawal of income / profits from taxation (BEPS) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA).
According to the head of department, at this stage he will refrain from providing any information obtained during the checks. "At the moment, I can not disclose information about these inspections, because by doing so I will harm the activities carried out," he said.
At the same time, as the Chief Tax Officer of Armenia stressed, the CGD provides a criminal legal assessment of the behavior of taxpayers, rather than specific officials - the former, current - to detect offshore funds from the point of view of identifying possible risks to the tax revenues of the republic.
As for the former head of the CGD Armen Avetisyan, who is accused of money laundering, then, according to David Ananyan, in his department today there are no events or studies conducted by companies owned by Avetisyan or affiliated with them.
Recall that on October 11, the National Security Service (NSS) distributed a video report that the Investigation Department of the Office initiated a criminal case against the former head of the RA State Customs Service Committee Armen Avetisyan about illegal participation in business activities and money laundering on a large scale acquired by criminal means ( money laundering) on the grounds of Art. 310 and 1, part 3, art. 190th RA Criminal Code. According to the press service of the National Security Service, according to preliminary data obtained as a result of operative-investigative and investigative measures taken, Armen Avetisyan, in 2011, being the chairman of the State Committee of the Customs Service, undertook and financed, mainly in cash, the construction of the Golden Palace hotel complex on Azatutyun Avenue. In order to hide his and the participation of other persons, he attributed the construction of this object to LLC Riverhil Holding, which was founded in the Cyprus offshore.
In the video of the National Security Service there are archived footage in which the then Armenian President Robert Kocharian also speaks about foreign investments invested in Armenia. Meanwhile, most recently in an interview with "Yerkir Media", the former president, speaking of Armen Avetisyan, assured that rumors about his wealth are far from reality. <Armen Avetisyan: what wealth? At that time there were legends around Armen Avetisyan. Talking is one thing, but the real picture is another. I'm not saying that people were holy. But those conversations and the real picture are very, very far from each other, "Kocharian said.