Land plot returned to Meghri community

ArmInfo. The court upheld the Syunik Regional Prosecutor's Office's claim to protect state interests and return 0.8 hectares of land to the Meghri community.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia, on April 18,  2025, the Syunik Regional Prosecutor's Office filed a claim with the  Anti-Corruption Court to protect state (community) interests,  demanding that the July 4, 2014 auction be declared invalid and the  consequences of the invalidity be applied.

Specifically, the prosecutor's office requested that the July 4,  2014, auction and, consequently, Decision No. 19-A of the July 4,  2014, issued by the head of the Alvank village in the Syunik region,  the July 9, 2014, purchase and sale agreement for a municipal land  plot between the Alvank village and an individual, and the state  registration of ownership rights to it in the names of two  individuals on March 21, 2017, be declared invalid.

The Anti-Corruption Court upheld the claim of the Syunik regional  prosecutor's office on October 3, 2025.  Once the decision enters  into force, the 0.8-hectare land plot located in the Alvank village  will be returned to the Meghri community of the Syunik region.

The agency stated that the formality of the auctions for the sale of  10 land plots totaling 8.5 hectares in the Alvank settlement of the  Meghri community was confirmed by a verdict issued in a criminal case  heard by the Syunik Regional Court of First Instance.

"Based on the verdict, on April 17, 18, and 23, 2025, the prosecutor  filed five lawsuits with the Anti- Corruption Court demanding that  the auctions for the sale of the aforementioned land plots be  declared invalid and that the consequences of invalidity be applied,  which had been accepted for proceedings by the Anti-Corruption Court,  and measures to secure the claim were applied to them," the  Prosecutor General's Office noted.