It's time to nationalize ENA: Armenian PM responds to "Tashir Group" president
18.06.2025,
11:17
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded to billionaire and philanthropist, Tashir Group president Samvel Karapetyan.
YEREVAN, June 18. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded to billionaire and philanthropist, Tashir Group president Samvel Karapetyan.
When Karapetyan was detained on Wednesday night, he said that he "supports the Armenian Church and the people, and I don't give a damn about them (authorities) or their Electric Networks."
"He (Karapetyan) says: 'I don't give a damn about them, about their ENA. In other words, these people didn't even consider ENA theirs, and they don't give a damn about this strategically important facility, its consumers and employees. Because if ENA doesn't belong to them, then to whom? Its consumers, its employees, the people, because they are either consumers or employees of ENA," Pashinyan wrote on his TG channel.
He expressed the opinion that the time has come for Electric Networks of Armenia CJSC to be nationalized.
"This will happen quickly, and my task is to ensure that all ENA employees conscientiously fulfill their work duties. After nationalization, conscientiousness will be taken into account," Pashinyan wrote.
Electric Networks of Armenia CJSC is part of the Tashir Group of Companies, which is owned by Karapetyan. ENA manages medium and low voltage distribution networks in Armenia.
Samvel Karapetyan and his brother Karen Karapetyan were detained by security forces Tuesday evening. The brother was released in the morning. They were taken away last night from Karapetyan's Yerevan mansion.
Earlier it became known that Samvel Karapetyan visited the Catholicos of All Armenians in Echmiadzin in connection with the attacks of the Armenian authorities on the leaders of the Church and expressed his support to the Patriarch. He believes that the current unacceptable situation will be resolved through the participation of politicians. "If the politicians fail, then we will take part in this in our own way," Karapetyan said.
After this, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote several posts on social networks regarding Karapetyan. "This is not a village in Nizhny Tapra in Kaluga ( a city in Russia where Karapetyan ran businesses in early 1990s). This is the Republic of Armenia. I hope you will feel the "taste of the state," he wrote.
Armenian NSS officers searched Karapetyan's Yerevan mansion detaining scores of his supporters.-0-
When Karapetyan was detained on Wednesday night, he said that he "supports the Armenian Church and the people, and I don't give a damn about them (authorities) or their Electric Networks."
"He (Karapetyan) says: 'I don't give a damn about them, about their ENA. In other words, these people didn't even consider ENA theirs, and they don't give a damn about this strategically important facility, its consumers and employees. Because if ENA doesn't belong to them, then to whom? Its consumers, its employees, the people, because they are either consumers or employees of ENA," Pashinyan wrote on his TG channel.
He expressed the opinion that the time has come for Electric Networks of Armenia CJSC to be nationalized.
"This will happen quickly, and my task is to ensure that all ENA employees conscientiously fulfill their work duties. After nationalization, conscientiousness will be taken into account," Pashinyan wrote.
Electric Networks of Armenia CJSC is part of the Tashir Group of Companies, which is owned by Karapetyan. ENA manages medium and low voltage distribution networks in Armenia.
Samvel Karapetyan and his brother Karen Karapetyan were detained by security forces Tuesday evening. The brother was released in the morning. They were taken away last night from Karapetyan's Yerevan mansion.
Earlier it became known that Samvel Karapetyan visited the Catholicos of All Armenians in Echmiadzin in connection with the attacks of the Armenian authorities on the leaders of the Church and expressed his support to the Patriarch. He believes that the current unacceptable situation will be resolved through the participation of politicians. "If the politicians fail, then we will take part in this in our own way," Karapetyan said.
After this, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote several posts on social networks regarding Karapetyan. "This is not a village in Nizhny Tapra in Kaluga ( a city in Russia where Karapetyan ran businesses in early 1990s). This is the Republic of Armenia. I hope you will feel the "taste of the state," he wrote.
Armenian NSS officers searched Karapetyan's Yerevan mansion detaining scores of his supporters.-0-
