ArmInfo. David Kazinyan, a member of the Strong Armenia party council and former CEO of Electric Networks of Armenia, confirmed to journalists that the Armenian government offered shareholders, Samvel Karapetyan's family, $380,000 for the acquisition of ESA. When asked about his readiness to accept this offer, Ghazinyan responded categorically negatively. "What sane person could agree to this?" he said.
Earlier, the RA government offered the Tashir Group (owned by Samvel Karapetyan) to buy the assets of Electric Networks of Armenia CJSC for a symbolic sum of $380,000. The authorities proposed a deal in which, taking into account previously received dividends, the net price for ENA shares would actually be 142 million drams, equivalent to approximately $380,000.
Ghazinyan also commented on the controversy surrounding hallucinogenic mushrooms that erupted the day before.
The day before, Samvel Karapetyan, a candidate for Prime Minister of the RA from the Strong Armenia party, accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of using hallucinogenic mushrooms before his speeches in parliament and at briefings, having brought one ton of them from China. In response, Pashinyan He threatened to file a lawsuit and feed the entire ton of mushrooms to Karapetyan.
In this regard, David Kazinyan noted that Samvel Karapetyan hadn't revealed the secret. He stated that everyone had always suspected it; they simply didn't know whether it was mushrooms or something else. Kazinyan considered the government's critical statements unacceptable, but the Strong Armenia party would not stoop to their rhetoric. "Samvel Karapetyan, like other citizens of the country, seeing Pashinyan's inappropriate behavior, was simply trying to understand the reason for it," the party board member emphasized.
Responding to a question about the government's threats to bar the political party from parliament, Kazinyan noted that he couldn't imagine how this could be done in the bastion of democracy Pashinyan himself proclaimed. "Is he planning to steal voters' votes? Let him try," David Kazinyan remarked.
