YEREVAN. – Armenian businessman who is on brink of bankruptcy Paylak Hayrapetyan and arrested businessman Ashot Sukiasyan were confronted twice, lawyer Yurik Khachatryan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The lawyer of Sukiasyan stressed that Paylak Hayrapetyan is publicly making untrue statements, either intentionally, or as a result of health problems.

The offshore scandal broke out after an Armenian media outlet wrote that Armenia’s then-PM Tigran Sargsyan, Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan—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, denied their involvement in such a company.

The Armenian General Investigation Department had laid charges on Sukiasyan, and on the grounds of committing fraud, causing property damage, and legalizing criminally-earned income. Arrest was set as his restraining order.