“THERE IS A BAY IN THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE WHERE MONEY LAUNDERED”

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[06:48 pm] 03 April, 2006

Director of the Main Scientific Library, academician Henry Nersisyan
rendered a press conference today for the first time in his life
to speak about the problems between him and the authorities of the
National Academy of Sciences, as well as the committee created in
this connection.

Henry Nersisyan had made a 13-point list of accusations against
the head of the Academy Fadey Sargsyan. “The accusations are not
personal. They are against the policy of the head of the Academy
because of which the Academy has appeared in a terrible situation”,
Henry Nersisyan underlined.

A committee had been created to investigate the accusations put forward
by Henry Nersisyan. It included the RA NAS financial affairs advisor
Hripsime Hovhannisyan, NAS lawyer Yuri Ghazaryan and others.

The Committee finished the work a fortnight ago and unanimously
announced all the accusations by Henry Nersisyan groundless.

On April 5 a session will take place where the accusations will not
be discussed. Scientific secretary Edward Ghazaryan mentioned that it
will be devoted to the resign of Fadey Sargsyan. The Prime Minister
of the country will also attend the session, and according to Henry
Nersisyan, instead of evaluating the 12-year activity of Fadey Sargsyan
and discussing the accusations, only meaningless speeches and thanks
will sound.

He considered the work of the committee illogical, “We ought to have
passed through all this in order to understand what happened in 1937
when the authorities said – this must be so, and a full stop”, Henry
Nersisyan added.

Henry Nersisyan’s accusations referred to legislative and financial
violations, issues about sale of realty and the 10-year illegal
“donation” of the NAS library area to a private shop. “There is a
bay where money is laundered”, he mentioned.

Henry Nersisyan demanded documents for the refutation or confirmation
of all this. He was not only denied, but also blackmailed accusing of
a number of violations in the library. The NAS scientific secretary
Edward Ghazaryan claimed in a press article that Henry Nersisyan
renounced his accusations, which, nevertheless, did not correspond
to reality.

Representing different documents Henry Nersisyan tried to bring ground
for the accusations. For example, he referred to the general meetings
of the NAS which according to the law were to be held twice a year
but are held once a year instead. The elections of the NAS members
are to be held once in three years. Although the last elections took
place in 2000, no elections were held after that. The NAS President
accounted it by the fact that the same happened in 1950a.

Henry Nersisyan also referred to the super-high financing
of the medical genetics center headed by the daughter of Fadey
Sargsyan. According to him, this is thanks to the sums which enter the
NAS and are used illegally. He added that this cannot go on this way,
and he is not for a revolution but for radical changes.

By the way, after the press conference the journalists tried to ask the
NAS President Fadey Sargsyan questions, but he refused to answer them.