He also touched upon the cooperation between his wife's friend Karine Andreasyan and ANIF. Tigran Avinyan said that they met Andreasyan that very year, when he was appointed head of that ANIF program. "51% of CFW belonged to the American' Orbis', and Karine was a US citizen who had worked at Etihad, Air Arabia, and had also applied for that position. Our American partners chose her," he said.
Avinyan said that when Andreasyan called, he stated that he was not a specialist in the field, but insisted that a program manager with managerial skills was needed. "Orbis, which implements 2 billion programs for the Pentagon, the team leader decides to work with ANIF in Armenia, should he share the position with me as a relative-acquaintance-friend?"