The Prosecutor's Office has identified violations in the process of alienating the building of the cinema located in Komitas Square of Vagharshapat.
22-09-2026 18:25 Armenia Human Rights
The legality of the expropriation process of the building of the cinema located in Komitas Square of the Vagharsapat community and the adjacent land plot has been examined by the State Interests Protection Division of the Military Prosecutor's Office.
The study revealed that based on the report of the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, without the results of property valuation carried out in accordance with the established procedure, the Government's decision No. 282-A of March 11, 2004, allowed the direct sale of the state-owned cinema building to a physical person, setting the sale price at the equivalent of 55 thousand US dollars, while approximately three months after the expropriation, without any actual change in condition, the cadastral value of the aforementioned property was 218 million 215 thousand drams.
The study also found that under the conditions where the transfer of the right to lease the land plot was not provided for in the sales contract, the right of a physical person to lease a state-owned land plot with an area of 0.266 hectares was registered, which later served as the basis for acquiring the right of free ownership of the land plot with a cadastral value of 18 million 513 thousand drams.
It was also found that a section of the land plot with an area of 1253 square meters, including sidewalks and passages, fell under the restrictions established by Article 60 of the Land Code and was not subject to expropriation.
The prosecutor, having discovered signs of an apparent crime while exercising the powers of state interests protection, reported the crime to the Anti-Corruption Committee, and a criminal proceeding has been initiated.
A lawsuit for the protection of state interests has been filed by the prosecutor's office in court, which has been accepted for proceedings.
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