{"id":262484,"date":"2015-02-12T12:59:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T08:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=262484"},"modified":"2015-02-12T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T09:01:13","slug":"personal-bank-accounts-of-high-ranking-clergy-members-need-to-be-released-says-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/02\/12\/personal-bank-accounts-of-high-ranking-clergy-members-need-to-be-released-says-expert.html","title":{"rendered":"Personal Bank Accounts of High-Ranking Clergy Members Need to Be Released, says Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Armenian Apostolic Church is not working transparently: the church, or it would be more correct to say the Catholicos, does not present financial reports&nbsp;neither to the society, nor to his congregates, said Partnership for Democracy director and human rights defender Stepan Danielyan in an interview with Asparez paper.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;To my knowledge, there is a document regarding the church&rsquo;s budget, however if that was presented to the public, then multiple questions would be raised and a demand for clarifications. Apparently, that is the reason&nbsp;the document is not released. Due to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icij.org\/project\/swiss-leaks\/explore-swiss-leaks-data\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">latest incident<\/span><\/a>, where Karekin II&rsquo;s account was disclosed,&nbsp;personal accounts need to be released as well, because it is unclear whether the personal accounts are serving only them or the church as well. That is why it&rsquo;s important to also release high ranking clergymen&rsquo;s bank accounts,&rdquo; said Danielyan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo the journalist&#39;s remark that if the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists did not release the information about the $1.1 million dollars on Karekin II&rsquo;s HSBC account, then the public would not have been aware of its existence, the human rights defender responded, &ldquo;Despite everything, there are a lot of things we aren&rsquo;t aware of. This is a systemic issue and doesn&rsquo;t only relate to the church. It is related to all of us. There isn&rsquo;t just the church and the Catholicos&rsquo;s money. That money is ours as well, however, the society is unaware of that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my knowledge, there is a document regarding the church\u2019s budget, however if that was presented to the public, then multiple questions would be raised and a demand for clarifications. Apparently, that&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21086,58602,12190,58628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}