ArmInfo. To be honest, I don't think I've ever been involved in a corruption scandal, someone decided to get some PR at my expense. This was stated by the RA Minister of Finance Vahe Hovhannisyan on May 2 during a press conference.
A month earlier, the rector of the Academy of Advocates Ara Zohrabyan reported that the Court of Appeal ordered the Anti-Corruption Court to initiate criminal proceedings against the Minister of Finance of Armenia Vahe Hovhannisyan. As Zohrabyan noted on social media, on the day of his appointment as Deputy Minister of Finance - August 18, 2021 - Hovhannisyan received an interest-free loan of $ 1,000,000, a donation of $ 50,000 and acquired 100% of the shares of Caritas Italiana in Vahe Hovhannisyan. According to the declaration submitted by the minister for 2021, part of the Caritas Italiana company (Caritas-Italiana, which specializes in developments in the field of information technology and received a benefit from the state as a startup) belongs to Hovhannisyan.
However, on January 10, 2022, the company was reorganized and renamed J-Corder. Moreover, Vahe Hovhannisyan's declaration for the same year indicates that at the end of the year he had shares worth $ 1,050,000. In the declaration for 2023, these shares "disappear". "After the reorganization of the company, its 100% owner becomes Rubik Karapetyan, who, according to media publications, is Vahe Hovhannisyan's uncle", wrote Zohrabyan.
During today's press conference, Hovhannisyan himself assured journalists that he has had no connection with the said company since he joined the civil service at the Ministry of Finance.
Thus, according to the minister, after the 2020 war, he and a group of friends decided to establish a technology park that was supposed to increase Armenia's capabilities in the field of various high-tech developments. , - Hovhannisyan said.
In addition, the head of the Ministry of Finance assured that he was not aware that the J-Corder company received tax benefits from the Armenian government in 2023 to exempt it from customs duties on imported goods.
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