YEREVAN. - Doubts raise about a new machination in the Armenian Nairit rubber plant, Armenian National Congress faction leader Levon Zourabian said today in the Armenian parliament.   

According to him, in April 2015 World Bank specialists prepared a conclusion on the plant, calling it unpromising.  

And it’s even stranger that the two former documents of the international experts, drawn up in 2011 and 2013 reflected right the opposite perspectives. The Jacobs company, which drew up the technical research upon the order of Russian trusts, pointed to the high profitability of relaunching the chemical rubber production according to butadiene technology, Zourabian said. 

“And in this document everything is the other way round. That’s why ot was turned down during the Nairit technical council meeting. A scent of a new machination can be felt. Someone wishes to ultimately deprive Armenia of chemical industry. To make sense of the situation, hearings in the Economic Committee of the parliament are necessary. We’re waiting for such a decision,” Zourabian said.

In 2006, Armenia sold 90 per cent of Nairit company’s shares to the British Consortium Rhinoville Property Limited for $40 million. Since then the company hasn’t practically appeared before the public or press.