This time, the corruption scandals rooted out by Pashinyan crossed the borders of Armenia and reached the international press.
Henrikh Danielyan, the president of the RPA youth organization, wrote about this on his Facebook page. "In fact, for you, the people are the material of a fine, and you steal millions at the expense of grandparents, whom you deceived, that they will live better. Meanwhile, our citizens live in more and more difficult conditions, and you fill your pockets. It is about revealing the corruption chain of Tigran Avinyan's family business.
Tigran Avinyan, who came to power in 2018. In the wake of the "Velvet Revolution", he became the focus of a corruption scandal. As reported by OCCRP, his family's company Irrigate LLC received a large financial profit from the state agricultural program that Avinyan himself managed as deputy prime minister.
According to the OCCRP, nine project beneficiaries selected Irrigate LLC as subcontractors, receiving nearly $620,000 in intensive gardening funds, with two companies listed as the largest recipients of state subsidies.
After the appointment of the Deputy Prime Minister, the profits of Irrigate LLC increased dramatically, and tax payments increased more than 12 times. From 2011 to 2018, the company paid 13.5 million AMD in taxes, while from 2019 to 2023, this amount was 106 million AMD.
This is their real face: corruptors, voracious deceivers who get rich at the expense of their own people," he wrote.
