Prosecutor`s Office seeks return of protected natural area held by  former Minister of Environment

ArmInfo.  The Prosecutor's Office is demanding the return to the Republic of Armenia of a specially protected natural area illegally owned by former RA  Minister of Environment Aram Harutyunyan, as reported by the press  service of the RA Prosecutor General's Office.

According to the source, the Anti-Corruption Court has accepted for  review the Prosecutor General's Office's claim against the Dilijan  community, Artur Arshakyan, and former Minister of Environment Aram  Harutyunyan, seeking to invalidate the auction held on October 12,  2012, for a 0.8-hectare land plot located at 29/24 Maxim Gorky Street  in Dilijan. The agency also demands that the real estate purchase and  sale agreement signed between Artur Arshakyan and Aram Harutyunyan on  June 20, 2017, be declared invalid and that the consequences of the  invalidity be applied, including the return of the 0.8-hectare land  plot illegally owned by Aram Harutyunyan to the Dilijan community.

Additionally, a measure was taken to ensure the defense of the claim,  and the defendant, Aram Harutyunyan, is prohibited from taking any  actions that could lead to a change in the actual or legal status of  the land plot specified in the claim.

During the investigation, the Prosecutor General's Office determined  that the 0.8-hectare land plot is included in the list of  restrictions under Article 60 of the Land Code, which prohibits the  alienation of land designated as "specially protected natural areas."