Armenian Central Bank chairman may sue former premier for insulting regulator’s employee

YEREVAN, April 28. /ARKA/. On Thursday, Arthur Javadyan, chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia, said that the regulator may sue those persons who insult its personnel.

A day earlier, Hrant Bagratyan, former premier, commenting the statement of Vahe Vardanyan, chief of the central bank’s financial stability agency, called him pathologic idiot.

“I demand public apology from this man,” Javadyan said. “Otherwise, we will have to resort to other measures and are ready even to sue him.”

He said he can’t tolerate such insulting remarks addressed to the central bank’s personnel by “specialists having professional menopause”. -0-

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