Political speculations are going around in Armenia about the offshore matter; all types of tales are invented in an attempt to discredit, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said during Thursday's Cabinet meeting.
He also added that all information about the well-known offshore scandal will be available to the media. "If the investigative journalists are impartial, they can distinguish between a truth and a lie," Sargsyan stated.
To note, Hetq.am News Agency had written that PM Tigran Sargsyan, Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan - the Vicar General of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and "jeweler" Ashot Sukiasyan are shareholders in an offshore company called Wlispera Holdings Limited, which is registered in Cyprus.
Sargsyan also touched on other cases, in particular, blaming the government for non-effective using of the grant within the frames of the programme of the "Millennium Challenges" fund and for directing $14 mln to lectures. Premier said that press-service of the government has already submitted full information to mass media in this context. He also added that the American party held audit on the matter and was satisfied with its results, for this reason the current criticism is not clear to him.
The premier also touched on the report of the Audit Chamber about non-effective waste of funds by the state departments. He charged the head of the government's administration, Vache Gabrielyan, to make a schedule according to which the heads of the departments must make a report and present their viewpoint regarding the report of the Audit Chamber.