In the scope of the powers of initiating a claim on the protection of state (community) interest the Prosecutor’s Office of Armavir region examined the cadastral case of an administrative building (now a dwelling house) of one of the villages of Parakar community of Armavir region.

Under the examination it was found out, that the former head of one of the villages of Parakar community, violating requirements of several articles of the Land Code, in the absence of grounds for alienating the property through direct sale, sold the administrative building with the surface of 246.6 square meters and the land plot  with the surface of 920 square meters (belonging to the community) to T.Kh  for AMD 978 thousand under the sale and purchase agreement concluded on September 8, 2005.

 Afterwards, violating the procedure defined by the relevant decision of the Government of 2002, the head of the village permitted T.Kh. to change the operational significance of the administrative building into a dwelling house on September 9, 2005 after which the building and the land plot were taken out of the balance sheet of the public service areas and included in the balance sheet of the housing fund.

On July 31, 2009 a real property sale and purchase agreement was concluded between T. Kh. and the son of the head of the village, under which the latter obtained the abovementioned administrative building and the land plot for AMD 4 million 500 thousand.

For the purpose of hiding the origin and movement of the property deriving from the criminal activity, the abovementioned property was alienated to S.M. for AMD 2 million in 2017.

Taking into consideration, that as a result of the examination cases of alleged crime were revealed, the prosecutor submitted a report to the Anti-corruption committee.

On March 22, 2024 a criminal proceedings was initiated in the Anti-corruption court under part 1 of article 441 and part 1 of article 296 of the Criminal Code.

Notice:  A person charged with any crime shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty in the manner prescribed by the RA Criminal Procedure Code—by the judgment came into legal force.