"People". How the Minister of Finance of RA paid off the loan of 1 million dollars in one year
"Zhoghovurd" daily writes: "The RA Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan was appointed to the position on December 20, 2022, according to the declaration of the reporting year of 2023. Before becoming a minister, he was the deputy minister of finance, advisor to the director of the Asian Development Bank, advisor to the prime minister in 2018-2019 on a public basis.
According to the government's website, Hovhannisyan has been a member of the "Civil Contract" party since 2015, and in 2016 he was elected vice-chairman of the party's control committee.
Vahe Hovhannisyan declared 1 immovable property, a plot of land, which was acquired in 2020 and is located in the city of Hrazdan, Kotayk region, in the 2023 declaration of real estate, income, interests and expenses.
RA Minister of Finance declared 2 cars and 1 motorcycle at the beginning of the reporting year. The cars are TOYOTA brand, manufactured in 2007 and 2006, purchased in 2015 and 2019. The minister bought the motorcycle in 2012, it is manufactured in 1995, brand TRANSALP V600 PD06. In the reporting year, the minister sold a TOYOTA car of 2006 for 25 million drams. At the end of the year, the minister had 1 car and 1 motorcycle.
The balances of Minister Hovhannisyan's bank accounts amounted to almost 4 million drams and 4 thousand 937 dollars, cash funds - 100 thousand drams.
RA Minister of Finance Vahe Hovhannisyan's income for the reporting year amounted to 20 million 126 thousand drams, which is a salary from the RA Ministry of Finance.
It should be noted that Hovhannisyan did not declare the 25 million drams received from the transaction of the sold car in the income of the reporting year.
The loans given and returned by the Minister of Finance amounted to 87 million 994 thousand drams and 27 thousand dollars in the reporting year.
According to the declarations submitted by Vahe Hovhannisyan in different years, he also has an apartment in Kentron administrative district. The point is that when he assumed the position of Deputy Minister of Finance, Hovhannisyan had a loan of 1 million dollars. In the accounting year 2022, in the section "the balance of the principal amount of received loans and borrowings as of December 31 of the accounting year", $1 million was still present, but in the section "income, received loans and borrowings" in the accounting year 2023, the $1 million loan disappeared, almost 400 million drams and more. It is questionable where the loan of 400 million drams of the Minister of Finance of RA disappeared in one year.
It should also be noted that there is something wrong in the data about the family members of the RA Finance Minister, the declaring official.
In 2021, there were 6 members of Hovhannisyan's family: his wife and 5 children.
In the 2023 declaration, there are 4 members of Hovhannisyan's family: his wife and 3 minor children.
According to the RA voter register, Hovhannisyan's eldest daughter lives at the same address where the minister is registered, but the daughter is not in the declaration of his father, Minister Hovhannisyan.
Regarding the above-mentioned questions, "Zhoghovurd" daily turned to the spokesperson of the RA Finance Minister to find out the inaccuracies in the declaration, but the latter stated that to get answers to our questions, we should send a written request. Of course, we will certainly send the written request, and until then we are attaching the copies of the documents, which are from the minister's declaration."
