The former commander of the NKR defense army Samvel Babayan has been absent from Armenia for quite a long time.
According to our information he has pulled quite a few prominent people in some business transactions. He took money from them and left Armenia. According to various rumors he snatched money in the amount of 10 million USD from approximately 40 people. According to our information, he even borrowed money from Prosperous Armenia Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan, former MP Hakob Hakobyan (nickname Tchoyt), from Ararat bank, which belongs to Barsegh Beglaryan. Among creditors there are members of the Constitutional Court and other high-rank officials. Moreover, the mentioned people have even pledged their apartments, objects and offices to banks in order to give money to Babayan. The apartment of Babayan on Tumanyan-Nalbadnyan crossroads and all the apartments of the elite building on Freedom Avenue are also pledged to the banks. By the way, this last building, which is registered in the name of the owners of one of Yerevan’s downtown cafes named Arayik (or Aro). Based on political calculations Babayan has convinced these people to enter into the transaction by bringing the argument that Prosperous Armenia is going to deflect from the coalition and that the former President of Armenia may return to politics. They say that he has convinced everyone that he has good relations with Kocharyan but he didn’t even have the opportunity to meet Kocharyan. It means that even back in the last year Babayan tried to convince his victims that after PA deflects from the coalition the political situation in the country will drastically change. He also claimed that he will patronize their businesses when Kocharyan comes to power as he is very close with the latter. However, in February of this year after the new coalition declaration Babayan realized that his fake story may be revealed and then he just decided not to return this money. According to certain information, he requested Kocharyan to regulate these issues for him. But then Kocharyan refused to accept him. That’s when he decided to leave. According to our information he had left for Moscow, where he hoped to resolve his financial issues with businessmen of Karabakhi descent. So it turns out that these businessmen also denied. And the people, who were pillaged, are representatives of high circles of power and that’s why they avoid raising their complaints and making them public. So if they make all this public it will become clear that they had entered into some kind of agreements with Babayan. And this will have a worse effect on them than the return of their money. The thing is that Babayan is considered one of the loyalists of Kocharyan. And these transactions can be considered as a power arm with the cooperation of the former case, when there are opinions that the President and Robert Kocharyan, however, have some contradictions S. Babayan "victim" officials prefer to keep silent about their losses, than the former official’s or Robert’s team suspects the cause of the S. Babayan deals in the dark about them or are aware of. The house of Albert Bazeyan also pledged that the money taken in exchange for transactions, but, unlike the others, A. Bazeyan has very modest opportunities, and unlike S.Babayan, he was never aware of illegal wealth accumulation mania: And now, when Babayan is too modest to have his friend was robbed, then it is within her acquaintances as "non-human act" it. Babayan was initially allocated a room in his office. Babayan first gave an office to Bazeyan, assigned salary, gained confidence and then cheated him. They say that as a result of these issues Bazeyan has appeared in a very bad health condition. We were not able to have direct contact with Bazeyan but his former party comrade Armen Mkrtchayn said that he had certain health issues. And when speaking to us the former member of the political board of Alliance party Gnel Dlechyan reiterated that Babayan is not in Armenia but added that he had left Armenia because of health matters. He added that he doesn’t have any information about Babayan’s business transactions. S. Babayan, Let us remember that A. Bazeyan "National Revival" Party with the Democratic Liberal Party united in its desire to become Head of the party, but its advanced manufactured goods, according to press reports, he urged his former party members to join the party and then moved to Armenia and the release from prison at the time of the gave him quite many quotas of importing the wood, glass and fixture. It is also noteworthy that the Karabakh conflict will not be heard in connection with this active period, the former commander of the army, and in this context, S. Babayan on a square can remember not so long ago, during a meeting with reporters he had expressed his opinion that Russia wants to start a war, and one reporter asked. "Who should be the leader, who would advocate, if you and other officials are here, "Babayan was to avoid responsibility. Karabakh must make sure that their demand should be, not quiet and isolated, and Busan to assume that what they say: If people person, an individual does not want to fight for its freedoms, then we should not blame anyone." During the campaign of presidential elections 1998 the journalists ask a question of then Prime Minister of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. The question relates to the houses of Babayan in NKR. “As of these houses then I should say that there are houses of some other commanders as well. And back in the day that was a political decision in Karabakh. During the war and at the end of the war it was evident that people didn’t incline to repair their own houses as the future of Karabakh was not clear. They were expecting that the state should say something in that regard. People didn’t wish to invest their money, resources to build houses because they were not confident about their future. And so then we decided that it would be better if the army commanders were the first to build houses and serve as an example to others,” said Kocharyan and added that due to that the rates of construction are increasing. “But if the commanders built houses in Yerevan I’d believe in those rumors,” said Kocharyan. It is no secret that the commanders of Karabakh have left Karabakh and build not just one but several houses in Yerevan. And it’s hard to guess what political decision implies the business of Samvel Babayan.