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"People". The NA Speaker's wife founded a new business in 2019


"Zhoghovurd" daily writes: Mariam Margaryan, the wife of the President of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, in addition to running a media, also has her own business.

According to the information of "Zhoghovurd" daily, the NA president's wife has founded her own organization, which cooperates with various representatives of Armenian pop music and organizes concerts. The organization, the real beneficiary of which is the NA Speaker's wife, is called "EFEMEF Group". It was founded in 2019, the LLC is registered in the Kentron administrative district of Yerevan at 72 building, 21 apartment, Arami street.

Although the registered address of Alen Simonyan's wife's LLC is Arami street, but according to our information, Mariam Margaryan operates the "EFEMEF group" in the area adjacent to the office of the "Freenews" television company, which she manages, on Heratsi street. As it becomes clear when studying the activities of the organization, it is engaged in the organization of various events and concert programs.

From the declaration presented by Mariam Margaryan, we also learn that she earns about 8 million drams a year from her work at "EFEMEF Group". We also contacted Mariam Margaryan to get a comment on the information. the latter said. "It's a collaborative effort, yes!" "EFEMEF" does not carry out active activities, it does not take much time."

"Zhoghovurd" daily also wrote earlier that "Freenews" operating under the management of the NA Speaker's wife and financed by the patron Edgar Avagyan, using the favor of the state, the government, has not paid the 1.5 million dram monthly payment to the Armenian television and radio broadcasting network for months. The debt of "Freenews" company amounted to 23.3 million AMD, which was later repaid against the background of the uproar caused by the revelations of "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper.

More details in today's issue of the newspaper

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