The Court of General Jurisdiction of the First Instance of the City of Yerevan accepted the proceedings of the next lawsuit regarding the confiscation of property of illegal origin submitted on 27 July, 2022 by the Department for Confiscation of Property of Illicit Origin of the RA General Prosecutor’s Office.
The General Prosecutor’s Office reported.
It presented a demand to the court to confiscate in favor of the Republic of Armenia from Surik Khachatryan, the former governor of Syunik, RA, and 5 persons related to him, in particular:
- 5 real estate: including: a private house in the city of Yerevan (with two addresses), an apartment, an object of public importance, a building in the city of Goris, 3 vehicles, and in case of impossibility, their average market values, which total more than AMD 1,530,135,900,
- participations in 3 legal entities ,
- AMD544.139 as the balance of illegal funds,
- AMD 2,410,463,523, which is not justified by the legal income of a person, has an illegal origin and cannot be confiscated based on Part 4 of Article 20 of the Law on Confiscation of Illegal Property,
- The right to demand loans and other receivables for a total of AMD 4,450,350,364 provided to individuals and legal entities ,
- the investment amount of AMD 10,098,300,000 transferred to the offshore organization .
The General Prosecutor’s Office continues the process of filing lawsuits for the confiscation of illegal property in the cases in which the means of preliminary securing of the claim have already been applied.
The above is the thirteenth such claim to be heard by the court.
