Fishery owned by ex-premier`s brother practiced tax evasion 

ArmInfo. The fish farm owned by the brother of former Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan evaded taxes, the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia reports.

According to the information, on December 24, 2024, the State Revenue  Committee (SRC) submitted a report that the authorized persons of the  fish farming LLC in the Ararat region, owned by the brother of the  former Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan -  G.A., evaded taxes on an especially large scale. On December 25,  2024, a criminal case was not initiated on this report.

The supervising prosecutor did not confirm the legality of the  refusal to initiate a criminal case and instructed to initiate a  criminal case under Article 290 of the Criminal Code (non-payment of  taxes, duties and other payments) and begin a preliminary  investigation.

During the preliminary investigation, the body conducting the  proceedings filed petitions to the court to conduct searches in a  number of places, which were rejected by court decisions. The  prosecutor filed appeals against the above-mentioned judicial acts,  which were satisfied.

As a result of the procedural actions carried out, factual data was  obtained that the actual head of the company engaged in fish farming  in the Ararat region, G.A., in collusion with the director of the  same company G.M. and chief accountant M.G., in order to evade paying  143,827,827 drams of tax payable to the state budget, concealed the  company's taxable object and included distorted data in tax  calculations.  On July 29, 2025, based on the investigator's  petitions, the prosecutor initiated criminal cases against G.A., G.M.  and M.G. under paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 3 of Article 290 of the  Criminal Code.  After the above decisions were made, G.A., G.M. and  M.G. were charged. As a result, they recovered the damage caused to  the state in the amount of 75,000,000 drams. The investigation is  ongoing.