Thursday, September 24 2020 14:56

ArmInfo.The whereabouts of Mikael Minasyan are being investigated by law enforcement agencies. On September 24, the Chairman of the RA State Revenue  Committee Edward Hovhannisyan stated this to journalists.

According to him, a couple of days ago the court granted the petition  of the SRC investigators to select arrest as a measure of restraint  against Mikael Minasyan. At the same time, the court made a decision  on another petition - on the arrest of Mikael Minasyan's manager,  Leonid Arevshatyan. "The SRC has already disseminated information  about the court session, I can not say anything more, since we are  talking about the secrecy of the investigation," said the head of the  Committee. Former Armenian Ambassador to the Vatican, son-in-law of  the third RA President Serzh Sargsyan, Mikael Minasyan will be  arrested. The corresponding petition of the investigator to choose a  measure of restraint against Minasyan in the form of arrest was  satisfied by the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan. Two  criminal cases have been initiated against Mikael Minasyan. In the  first criminal case, Minasyan was charged as a defendant in a  criminal case on illegal enrichment, money laundering and the  inclusion of false data in the income tax return.  Arrest was chosen  as a measure of restraint against him. There is no exact information  regarding his current location; Minasyan himself previously reported  on Facebook about the initiation of more than 10 criminal cases  against people related to him and his family.

Last fall, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on Minasyan to  return to his homeland and answer questions from the Special  Investigation Service. In particular, the talk was about the illegal,  as the Prime Minister noted, privatization of a strategic facility in  Lori region. According to media reports, this facility is the  Dzoraget hydroelectric power station ("Dzora HPP"). Former head of  the RA Defense Ministry Seyran Ohanyan, who is suspected of  embezzling property in the amount of 1,046,400,000 AMD, is being  accused in the criminal case concerning "Dzora HPP". The second  criminal case in the SIS was initiated on the fact of exceeding  official powers, which, by negligence, entailed grave consequences.

Earlier on her Facebook page, the Spokesperson of the Prime Minister  Mane Gevorgyan stated that Minasyan had illegal shares in the Spayka  company, the Shant and Armenia TV companies, the Yerevan Mall  shopping center, the Zangezur copper-molybdenum plant, and a number  of other companies.  According to her, most of his share was sold in  a hurry after the "velvet revolution", and, for example, the share in  ZCMC, with obvious abuse of office and through dummy shareholders,  was acquired by former director of the NSS Artur Vanetsyan. Gevorgyan  also pointed out that Vanetsyan's father owns a company that has  become a major cargo carrier of ZCMC. According to her, the  Government also has information that Minasyan has a corrupt share in  UCOM, and it is he who de jure is the owner of a part of the shares  of the family of the former head of the SRC Gagik Khachatryan.