ArmInfo.Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan has already signed in resignation letter, Armenian mass media reports.
According to the information the t head of the capital's municipality has not attended workplace e for several days already.
It is also informed that the issue of the new acting Yerevan Mayor is also agreed. Member of Elders' Council of Yerevan and member of RPA, Director of Synopsis Armenia Hovik Musayelyan will be elected by the Elders' Council and temporarily assume the position.
It is planned to finally solve the issue after the early parliamentary elections. At the current stage candidacies of first Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan are being discussed.
To recall, on June 25 the protest action was held against the mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan. A video-investigation became the reason of protest action. This video showed all the numerous property of the mayor, in particular, several apartments in various buildings, a house with a plot of land, a cottage, a garage, a public building, etc. Later the assistant to the premier Aren Mkrtchyan made a statement that all the information, published the day before in the video about Taron Margaryan's multi-million state, was transferred to the National Security Service. On his page in Facebook Mkrtchyan in particular wrote that the transferred materials will be attached to the case of the financial fraud of the Yerevan Foundation, whose head of the Board of Trustees is Margaryan. He also stated that he was ready to take part in the investigation of the case as a witness.
Meanwhile, the last meeting of the 3rd session of the Elders' Council of Yerevan took place yesterday, which was held by Deputy Mayor of Yerevan Kamo Areyan. "Mayor Taron Margaryan is absent because of problems with health", he stated.
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