YEREVAN. -- By request of Paylak Hayrapetyan, the victim of the leaked Panama documents, today, on June 9, the court removed his representative from the proceedings. Paylak Hayrapetyan said that Inga Avagyan is often absent from the court sessions, since her parents are living in Artsakh.”

"I would like  that Inga Avagyan be removed, since she often goes to Karabakh where her parents live, and because of bad conditions in Artsakh  is not able to attend the sessions, " he said. The court ruled to remove Inga Avagyan from the case.

As reported earlier, the victim of the Panama Documents’ leakage  Paylak Hayrapetyan  who had been expropriated, claimed that in 2009 he had put in pledge his own real estate at the value of $ 100 million in Ameriabank . The  Ameriabank estimated the property in the amount of % 33 million and appropriated  $10.7 million to the  businessman Ashot Sukiasyan. The latter, according to the agreement, instead of investing the funds in gold and diamond mining in Africa, has transferred it to several offshore companies in Cyprus, including, Wlispera Holdings Limited, whereas Paylak Hayrapetyan  lost his property.

The names of Ashot Sukiasyan and the former prime minister Samvel Ktchoyan are mentioned among the shareholders in the  Wlispera Holding. However, Sukiasyan who was arrested in January of  2014  and extradited to Armenia said that the Prime Minister Tigran Sarksyan and the archbishop Kchoyan had no connection to the offshore company, and that he himself forged their signatures.

The only accused in the case today is the businessman Ashot Sukiasyan. He is charged in accordance with Article 190  (part 3, point 1) ,  Article 178 (Paragraph 1),  and Article 205 ( part 2)  of the RA Criminal Code of legalizing and acquiring a right over a large number of fraudulently obtained   properties, illicitly earning money, and of evading taxes, duties and other compulsory payments.

The US Ambassador of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan and the head of the Ararat Patriarchal Diocese Archbishop Ktchoyan deny their involvement in the offshore business. At the same time, Kanaker-Zeytun general jurisdiction court examines the claim  of Tigran Sargsyan against Paylak Hayrapetyan  . The former prime minister requires to deny accusations raised against him in the media,  which he considers as a slander and requires a compensation at the amount of  1 million AMD against a  moral damage caused to him.