YEREVAN. – The response to the query, which was made on behalf of Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, is received from the state registry for Cypriot companies, Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.

“It should be clear from this as to whether the PM knew that he is a shareholder in an offshore company.

“Armenian Prosecutor [General’s] advisor Sona Truzyan told our correspondent that the response is sent to Armenian Police and attached to the criminal case that is opened on this offshore story, and it cannot be made public. 

“This means the response that came from Cyprus became an ‘investigation secret.’ And experience shows that those facts whose publicizing is inconvenient for the authorities usually become an ‘investigation secret,’” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.   

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, 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 and Kjoyan, however, have denied their involvement in such company.