Last year, on 30 September, 2022, the General Prosecutor’s Office submitted to the Anti-Corruption Court another lawsuit regarding the confiscation of property of illicit origin, which was accepted for proceedings by the decision of 5 October, 2022.

Iravaban.net reports that Mihran Poghosyan submitted his last property and income declaration in 2019, when he terminated his position as a member of the National Assembly. We present to your attention his property and income based on the latest officially presented data.

Mihran Poghosyan held the position of Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer in 2008-2016.

In 2014, Poghosyan declared:

• 26,000,000 AMD,
• $250,000
• 12,000 EUR,
• 16,150,000 AMD income from salary (4,150,000 AMD), property disposal (2,000,000 AMD), the rest from rent payments.

In 2015, his funds decreased to:

• 22,000,000 AMD,
• $200,000
• 12,000 EUR,
• 22,359,309 AMD of income from wages (12,359,309 AMD), the rest from rent payments.

In 2016, he declared real estate and other means:

• individual residential house,
• 6 buildings of public significance,
• industrial building,
• garage,
• 26,000,000 AMD,
• $191,000
• 12,000 EUR,
• 4,862,835 AMD from the salary received and rent payments.

In 2017, while assuming the post of NA Dweputy, Mihran Poghosyan declared:

• According to the legislation of the Republic of Armenia, a newly built, acquired and registered and assessed building by the authorized body managing the real estate cadaster, which has not yet received state registration of rights,
• 6 buildings of public significance,
• industrial building,
• garage,
• 32,000,000 AMD,
• $153,000
• 3,100,000 AMD income from rent payments.

According to the annual declaration of 2017, his funds have decreased, amounting to

30,000,000 AMD, 155,000 dollars, 6,686,530 AMD income from salary and rental fees.

In 2018, Mihran Poghosyan expropriated the industrial building for 5 million AMD, one of the public buildings for 581.4 million AMD. In that year he also bought

• A plot of land worth  20,729,870,
• Range Rover Supercharged 5.0 Vogue car worth 13 million.

His funds amounted to:

• 598,000,000 AMD,
• $152,000
• Income of 61,574,675 AMD received from salary (5,970,210 AMD) and rent payments.

In 2019, while terminating the post of a Deputy of the National Assembly (14.01.2019), he declared:

• 2 individual residential houses,
• 9 buildings of public significance,
• garage,
• plot of land
• Range Rover Supercharged 5.0 Vogue car,
• 598,000,000 AMD,
• $152,000
• 114,660 AMD: wages.

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Mihran Poghosyan’s wife Karine Mkhitaryan declared:

• In 2014 – 15,000,000 AMD,
• In 2015 – Range Rover Sport – HSE car, worth $70,000,  2,000,000,
• In 2017 – 12,000,000 AMD, 2,081,040 AMD income from salary,
• In 2018 – 9,000,000 AMD, 1,990,576 AMD income from salary.

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There are no notes in the 2017-18 declarations of Mihran Poghosyan’s daughter and sons, Lia, Vahe, and Henry Poghosyan.

It should also be reminded that on 23 December, 2022, the General Prosecutor’s Office announced that on 21 December, 2022, the supervising prosecutor decided to initiate a public criminal prosecution against Mihran Poghosyan’s security guard E.S. and against driver H.B.

During the criminal proceedings examined by the Anti-Corruption Committee, factual information was obtained that H.B. and E.S. assisted the ex- Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer Mihran Poghosyan, using their official position, to embezzle large amounts of someone else’s property.

As a result, the Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer Mihran Poghosyan, using his official position, embezzled a total of 22 million 117 thousand 820 AMD from the state budget in the case of E.S., and 21 million 754,643 AMD in the case of H.B.

On 22 December, 2022, the decisions to initiate a public criminal prosecution were sent to the RA Anti-Corruption Committee for the purpose of filing charges.

On 20 May, 2022, a decision was made to indict the former Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer M.P. as a defendant for the fact that he, occupying the position of Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer of RA, embezzled particularly large amounts of property in five separate cases, as well as exceeded his official powers, which carelessly caused serious consequences, and legalized particularly large amounts of property obtained through criminal means.

On 20 April 2019, Mihran Poghosyan was found by Russian law enforcement officers in the Khanate of Karelia and arrested. As a result of the cooperation of RA and RF Prosecutor’s Offices, on 23 April,  the RF Court granted the request of the RF Prosecutor’s Office to detain Mihran Poghosyan for 40 days in order to discuss the issue of handing him over to RA.

On 17 August, 2019, Prosecutor General’s Office issued a statement that according to the information received from the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, it was not considered possible to satisfy the petition of the RA Prosecutor General’s Office to hand over Mihran Poghosyan for criminal prosecution, based on the provisions of Article 19 of the Convention on Legal Aid and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Cases, adopted in Minsk on 22 January 1993.

It should be noted that Iravaban.net has published an investigation  about 70 auctions announced for the area at 14 Aivazovsky Street, in which the winners are related to Mihran Poghosyan.

Note: A person that is suspected or accused of an alleged crime is considered innocent until his/her guilt is proved by a court judgment that has come into legal effect pursuant to the procedure determined by RA Criminal Procedure Code.