ArmInfo. Yerevan Municipality begins the process of returning illegally privatized lands of "Eraz" park.
<Yerevan Municipality has begun the process of returning the privatized lands of Eraz Park. The initiative belongs to the apparatus of the administrative district of Arabkir, which found violations in transactions on the privatization of land. The investigation materials were sent to the Investigative Committee. On April 27, a criminal case was opened on the grounds of knowingly false information or entries in official documents by an official for personal gain or for other personal reasons, "said Hakob Karapetyan, spokesman for the capital's municipality, on his Facebook page.
According to the portal HETQ, the land area of 8622 square meters. m. in the park "Eraz" was privatized in 2008, and the community did not receive any income from privatization. The territories were privatized by Mikmetal CJSC, 75% of the shares of which belong to the former deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Vagan Harutyunyan, and the remaining 25% to his father Mikhail Harutyunyan. The privatization of the park was carried out by the decision of the then mayor of Yerevan, Yervand Zakharyan. Meanwhile, experts note that in reality Zakharyan, according to the "Land Code", did not have the right in this case to issue a certificate of ownership. In recent years, the Eraz Park has been actively developing: there is an open-air restaurant, cafes, children's entertainment centers, and in winter there is an ice rink.