Former Head of the State Property Management Department Arman Sahakyan, with the assistance of a group of individuals, legalized particularly large amounts of property. Criminal Investigation

A.S., the head of the RA State Property Management Department in 2011-2018, who held the position of chairman of the Yerevan City Public School Board in 2011-2019, with the assistance of his brother, as well as other persons, used his official and official powers or the influence derived from them to legalize particularly large amounts of property acquired through criminal means. This was reported by the Criminal Investigation Department.

During the preliminary investigation, factual data was obtained that A.S., with the aim of criminally acquiring and legalizing 1,939,029 square meters of land for himself and his relatives from the 15,523 square meter state-owned land plot transferred to the school with the right of gratuitous use and attached to the State Property Management Department, had previously agreed with Yerevan Municipality officials to withdraw the said property from the state property fund by illegally separating it and entering it into the Yerevan Municipality property fund, then, in an obvious criminal manner, to withdraw it from the Yerevan Municipality property fund and formally enter it into the property fund of other persons, after which he alienated it to himself and his relatives, thus legalizing the property acquired through criminal means without obstacles.

In particular, A.S. suggested to the school principal, under the pretext of improving the area, to clarify the school's boundaries and remove the previously illegally built garages by other individuals from its territory.

The school principal submitted an application addressed to A.S. to the State Property Management Department, requesting that the garages be removed from the school grounds as a result of the clarification of the boundaries.

A.S. sent the application to the Mayor of Yerevan, requesting that he instruct the relevant department to clarify the boundaries of the aforementioned school and at the same time reached a criminal agreement with the relevant officials of the Yerevan Municipality to also remove two other plots of land belonging to the school, separate from each other and not connected to the garages, from the boundaries of the school.

As a result, the project drawn up with a false note-conclusion was approved by the decision of the Mayor of Yerevan and a new plan was issued, according to which the actual area of the land plot was 11,761.57 square meters, instead of 15,523 square meters as defined by the previous master plan.

Then, in order to hide the criminal origin of the 1,939.029 square meter plot of land, which was unjustifiably reduced from the 15,523 square meter plot of land that was state property and given to the school with the right of gratuitous use, illegally withdrawn from the state property fund and transferred to the property fund of the Yerevan Municipality as a result of his and Yerevan Municipality officials' criminal actions, A.S. organized the alienation of the aforementioned plot of land and other adjacent community-owned land plots to himself and his relatives through formal auctions.

On January 22, 2025, the supervising prosecutor initiated public criminal prosecution against A.S. under Article 296, Part 3, Paragraphs 2 and 3 (money laundering) of the Criminal Code, against one person under Article 46-296, Part 3, Paragraphs 2 and 3 (assisting money laundering) and Article 46-441, Part 2, Paragraph 5 (abuse of official or official powers or influence derived therefrom by an official or assistance in the transfer of powers), against six persons under Article 46-296, Part 3, Paragraphs 2 and 3 (assisting money laundering).

Administrative supervision was applied as a preventive measure to one person, bail and administrative supervision to one person, house arrest to one person, bail and house arrest to two people, administrative supervision to two people, administrative supervision and a ban on absence to one person.

Notice: A person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty in accordance with the procedure established by the Criminal Procedure Code, by a court verdict that has entered into legal force.