“This is a question, which we cannot avoid. The targeting of concrete businesses and the creation of obstacles for concrete businesses may create dangerous impact on the country,” during yesterday’s press conference said Aristomene Varudakis, head of the World Bank office in Yerevan as a response to the question of our reporter as to what extent could the arrest of the director of the ArmEconomBank Saribek Sukiasyan affect the business environment of Armenia. “I think the government is aware of this,” added Varudakis. Let us remember that the European Bank of Development and Reconstruction released a statement, which particularly says that the arrest of Saribek Sukaisyan harms the business reputation of Armenia. The WB Armenia representative shares this opinion. This means that Varudakis has diplomatically said that the government represses those businessmen of Armenia, who have contrasting political views and in this case the Sukiasyans. The interesting thing is that after all the WB makes optimistic statements and proposes optimistic expectations from the Armenian government, hoping that the latter will efficiently fight corruption and even oligopolies.
