Land owned by son of former governorr returned to state

ArmInfo. A land plot of 2.4 hectares in the resort area in the village of Artavaz, Kotayk region,  was returned to the state and assigned to the State Property Committee. The resolution was adopted on February 8 at a meeting of the RA Cabinet of Ministers.

As Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan stated, the Anti-Corruption  Civil Court in April 2023 satisfied the request of the supervisory  authority, which invalidated the results of the auction of May 2007,  and as a result, the deal for the sale of the said plot between the  governor of Kotayk (the governor of the region in 2001-2014 was  Kavalenko Shahgaldyan) and his adviser, as well as further state  registration of property (a land plot with an area of about 24  thousand square meters, located in the Tsakhkadzor community) in the  name of the son of the head of the region in October 2015.

The land plot is valued at 46.9 million drams and transferred to the  State Property Management Committee.  The case of another land plot,  covering an area of 2 hectares, is under consideration and will soon  be submitted to the government.

The Prosecutor General presented the background to the case. Thus, by  government decision of 2007, 558,800 sq. m of forest land located  beyond the administrative boundaries of the communities of Kotayk  region, and 364,800 sq. m of forest land of the Hrazdan community  were transferred to the community on the right of gratuitous  ownership, then the regional administration of Kotayk and the Hrazdan  mayor's office held false auctions for the sale of land plots, and  persons wishing to purchase specific land plots were issued fake  ownership documents.

In 2019, the body carrying out the proceedings decided to terminate  proceedings against the governor of the Kotayk region, the head of  the regional administration department, the chief specialist of the  same department, the chief accountant, the mayor of Hrazdan and a  group of employees of the municipality on the basis of the expiration  of the statute of limitations, the prosecutor's office filed 14  lawsuits, 6 of which were satisfied.