make preferableYEREVAN. – Transitional justice is one of the options, it is not an illegal tool, but can be implemented only according to the law and within the Constitution, Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan said during a meeting with Armenian entrepreneurs in Moscow.
He said it could have no impact on business and property, but corruption. Pashinyan recalled that during the last rally in Yerevan he told about a person having $30 million on his account, and this person is not a businessman. Pashinyan said the existing legislation makes it difficult to ask how this person got 30 million. Here comes the transitional justice that will allow asking where a person who has no business links could get this money.
He assured that there will be no redistribution of property.
“But I do not rule out the possibility of a corruption case when a high-ranking official may have assets of tens of millions, and the assets will be returned to Armenia in the manner prescribed by law. We will have to go this way, because it can be seen that a large part of our national wealth is in offshore zones.
Transitional justice is that we can cooperate with international institutions to find and bring back these assets. But as long as we have not discussed with our society that this should be done, I assure you that we will not make such a move,” he said.
