FORBES: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT, DEFENSE MINISTER, MINISTER OF TRANSPORT IN RICHEST TEN IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, December 15. /ARKA-Novosti-Armenia/. Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan, as well as Minister of Transport and Communication Andranik Manugyan are among the ten richest people in Armenia, says an Armenian version of the “Forbes” magazine presented in Yerevan on Friday.
The aforementioned people rank 7th, 8th and 9th in the list topped by the President of the Multy Group concern, member of the Armenian Parliament and Chairman of the “Prosperous Armenia” party Gagik Tsarukyan. Chief of the RA Customs Committee Armen Avetisyan ranks 2nd, President of MIKA Armenia Trading Miklhail Bagdasarov 3rd, Hrant Vardanyan (Grand Tobacco) 4th, the Sukiasyan family (SIL concern) 5th, Yerevan Mayor Yervand Zakharyan 6th . RA Minister of Justice David Harutyunyan ranks 10th I the list.
The Forbes asked experts to compare Armenia’s richest people with the world’s tycoons. Opinions differ. Some think that the local ones are rich according to local criteria. One of the experts stressed that the financial potential of all the ten cannot compete with that of the wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Other experts say that the first two can at least compete with the world’s magnates.