Criminal cases have been launched over smuggled tobacco in Russia in connection with the Cransodar and Voronezh case, said Armenian ex-envoy to the Vatican Mikael Minasyan.

Commenting on the export of diamonds, the former Armenian ambassador to the Vatican noted that the police recently refuted his story.

"Dear people, what do you deny? You deny something I did not say. I did not say that it was exported illegally. There are no 1,400 diamond cutters in Armenia that could process diamonds worth 20 billion, and you do not deny this," he added.

Mikael Minasyan also commented on the construction of customs in Gyumri.

“For a long time, I tried to understand the political benefit of this. I sincerely did not understand it," he added.  

Earlier, Minasyan noted that "the masks of Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and his so-called elite have been torn." 

"I'm talking about the political masks that the Prime Minister and his entourage are wearing to deceive and play on the hopes and emotions of the Armenian people, but so far we can see who they are and specifically who Nikol Pashinyan is," he noted adding that PM "barks and bites everyone he fears, and he is afraid of everyone, the number of those people is increasing day by day."

"The biggest thing that Nikol Pashinyan is afraid of is the responsibility and the future," he noted.

According to Minasyan, the PM is afraid of the future because he has realized that the Armenian people will not forgive him and constant lies.