
ArmInfo. Approximately 1.3 billion drams, 2,000 bank shares, and real estate are to be confiscated in favor of the state from former Abovyan Mayor Karapet Guloyan, the son-in-law of businessman and leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan.
According to the press service of the RA Prosecutor General's Office, the Cassation Court partially upheld the prosecutor's office's appeal, and the ruling has entered into force.
As a reminder, the Prosecutor General's Office's Department for Confiscation of Illegally Acquired Assets filed a lawsuit against Karapet Guloyan and his associates in the Anti-Corruption Court. By its decision of July 1, 2024, the Anti-Corruption Court partially satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia against Murad Guloyan, Roza Tsarukyan, and third parties, Abovyan City LLC and Belglass, for the seizure of property of illegal origin.
Thus, the following will be seized in favor of the Republic of Armenia: the illegal part of the real estate located at 8 Building, Arinzh Village, Kotayk Region, which constitutes approximately 90% of the real estate; the land plot located at 29/2 Tandzaghbyur Street, Tsaghkadzor Community, Kotayk Region; 2,000 shares of ACBA BANK OJSC; and the right to collect $264,000 from the outstanding portion of the $294,900 loan provided to Belglass LLC in 2021.
In addition to the above, the following assets will also be confiscated from Karapet Murad Guloyan in favor of the Republic of Armenia: 934,000 drams as the value of 267 shares of Elektromontazh OJSC acquired in 2019, 1,227,490,966 drams as expenses not justified by the legal income of Karapet Guloyan of illegal origin, transferred to a bona fide purchaser in the period 2007-2022 or not subject to identification and confiscation, 58,120,147 drams as the remainder of illegal income, that is, the amount received as a result of the use of property of illegal origin.