Even if I wished so, I can’t be responsible for everything Mihran Poghosyan, ex-Head of the Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Orders of Armenia, did.

Armenian National Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov told the aforementioned to journalists Tuesday, referring to the Panama document previously published by ICIJ. The latter includes the names of 37 Armenian citizens involved in the offshore schemes. The name of Mihran Poghosyan is also in the list.  

To the question as to whether people who have registered their businesses in offshores are guilty, Sharamzanav said: “I’m neither a judge nor a lawyer or representative of law enforcement system. All those who will turn out to have been included in suspicious transactions, complicity and crime should be punished, regardless of whether that is me or you.”

In his words, so far they have come across no name of an official but for Mihran Poghosyan. “When speaking about democracy, we should consider the presumption of innocence; a person is innocent unless the court has proved his guilt,”he added.