Today, on 17 May, the Anti-Corruption Court held a hearing on the case of confiscation of property of illicit origin from the former Mayor of Yerevan, former Minister of Communications and Transport Gagik Beglaryan, his wife Nune Nikolyan, son Hrant Beglaryan and daughter Natella Beglaryan. The session was presided by Judge Narine Avagyan.

According to the lawsuit, the RA General Prosecutor’s Office’s Department for Confiscation of Illegally Sourced Assets submitted a demand to the court to confiscate in favor of the Republic of Armenia the former mayor of Yerevan, former deputy of the RA National Assembly, RA Minister of Transport and Communications Gagik Beglaryan, and 3 related persons in favor of the Republic of Armenia, in particular:  

• 33 apartments, areas, buildings, parking lots located in Yerevan, 11 of which are located on Northern Avenue, 7 on Khorenatsi Street, 3 on Arshakunyats Avenue, 2 private houses on Azatutyan Avenue, 2 areas on Tamanyan Street, 2 (building and parking lot) on Teryan street, as well as real estate located in other administrative districts of Yerevan, 2 plots of land in Kotayk marz (Tsaghkadzor Community) and 1 plot of land in Ararat (Sis Community), 1 vehicle (MERSEDES-BENZ S600L), and in case of impossibility, their average market value, which is AMD 10,704,483,825 in total,
• 10 rights of participation in legal entities,
• 8 rights to demand the unreturned part of the loan in the amount of AMD 1,879,759,719,
• AMD 882.745.274.9 as the balance of the income received from the use of property of illicit origin, as well as the proceeds from the sale of property,
• AMD 3,317,008,604, which is not justified by the legal income of a person, has an illicit origin and cannot be confiscated based on Part 4 of Article 20 of The Law on Confiscation of Property of Illegal Origin.

According to Iravaban.net, at the beginning of the session, the presiding judge announced that the 10 companies involved in the case as a third party submitted a petition, asking the court to grant time to get acquainted with the case materials.

After listening to the positions of the parties, the judge announced that on 7 April, “Duty Free Holding” LLC, “Persephone” LLC and “Yerevan No. 2 Market” LLC received the decision of the court to be involved as a third party in the case and they had a two weeks deadline to petition the court to extend the deadline for filing a response, but they did not do so. “The court decides to reject the motion to extend the deadline for submitting a written response.”

At the same time, Narine Avagyan informed that petitions submitted by “Arabkir Furniture Factory One” CJSC, “Victoria-Arman” LLC, “Agattransservice” LLC, “Arevik-Tur” LLC, “Skarta” LLC, “Rio” CJSC and “Narek” OJSC will be granted, considering that the latter received the decision to involve them in the case on 10 May. “Time will be granted until 8 June inclusive.”

The session was adjourned. The next court session will take place on 12 June.