YEREVAN. – Armenia has started moving backwards to the 90s or to the criminal oligarchic era of Vano Siradeghyan, Golos Armenii (Voice of Armenia) newspaper writes on Tuesday.

The newspaper recalls that the company led by businessman Khachatur Sukiasyan “who became the first Armenian oligarch under the patronage of Vano Siradeghyan” has been granted tax preferences by the government.

Tax preferences for SIL MAAZA will be in effect during three years, as the company is implementing an investment project. However, the newspaper notes that the company pledged to open “only 17 jobs with 165,000 monthly wages” and hits at reincarnation of Sukiasyan.

“Granting privileges to Sukiasyan reminds of the 90s, as he was a number one privilege beneficiary at that time. If we add to this the fact that Nikol Pashinyan's financial and political sponsor was Sukiasyan's associate Vano Siradeghyan, the picture of returning to the morals of the 90's will be complete,” the newspaper says.

According to the newspaper, there were several clans that had a serious impact on the economy after the privatization process. The most powerful and dynamically growing was the clan of the most omnipotent, super minister Vano Siradeghyan. And, thus, it was in the bowels of this clan that the first criminal oligarch of Armenia, Khachatur Sukiasyan, was ‘born’

In the mid-90s, nomenclature capitalism took shape in Armenia, with Sukiasyan becoming a prominent figure. It was he who has imported the first group of skinheads into the country, it was he who has received the first packages of economic benefits, it was he who has tested the first models of a non-competitive business, the source noted adding tha criminal-oligarchic system in Armenia was formed after 1994, as a result of the privatization process, as well as the merger of business and government. And the result of this system is oligarch Sukiasyan.