{"id":267815,"date":"2015-09-18T11:48:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T07:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=267815"},"modified":"2015-09-18T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T08:09:06","slug":"russian-based-armenian-businessman-to-buy-majority-stake-in-armenias-power-utility-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/18\/russian-based-armenian-businessman-to-buy-majority-stake-in-armenias-power-utility-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian-Based Armenian Businessman to Buy Majority Stake in Armenia&#8217;s Power Utility: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Russian-based Armenian businessman, founder of Tashir Group Samvel Karapetyan will become the majority shareholder of &ldquo;Electric Networks of Armenia&rdquo; (ENA), Armenia&#39;s national power distribution company, local &ldquo;Haykakan Zhamanak&rdquo; daily reports.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn September 17 the Armenian Government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/17\/offshore-registered-company-to-buy-armenias-power-distribution-network.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">discussed the motion<\/span><\/a> by Inter RAO UES for the alienation of 100% of the shares of ENA to an offshore-registered (Cyprus) &ldquo;Liormand Holdings Limited,&rdquo; and instructed the Armenian ministries of energy, economy, finance, and justice to examine all documents and information within three days and draft an agreement on ENA&#39;s sale.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHowever, as reported by the newspaper, the entire process is a mere formality, and the decision on ENA&#39;s sale had long been made. According to the daily&#39;s sources, in addition to Samvel Karapetyan, among the real buyers are the former leader of Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan, former Republican MP Harutyun Pambukyan and former Mayor of Yerevan Karen Karapetyan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe deal for ENA&#39;s sale, according to the same sources, will be completed by February 2016, and&nbsp;&quot;Liormand Holdings Limited&quot; will act as an intermediary owner. The company will acquire ENA from the Russian Inter RAO UES and after a while will resell it to the real owner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Some &#39;laundering&#39; will be done in this interim period, some debts, loans will be &#39;cleaned up&#39;, and after some time the real owner will emerge,&rdquo; Haykakan Zhamanak writes.<\/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>The deal for ENA&#8217;s sale, according to the same sources, will be completed by February 2016,  &#8220;Liormand Holdings Limited&#8221; will act as an intermediary owner: the company will acquire ENA from the Russian Inter RAO UES&#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":267808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34940,10463,56330,62463,50560,50559,15016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267815"}],"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=267815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}