"Zhoghovurd" daily writes:
"The Armenian Prosecutor's Office is only engaged in cases of illegal property of the "formers", so to speak, but the current authorities, who are getting rich by leaps and bounds in front of everyone's eyes, escape Anna Vardapetyan's eyes. For example, Tigran Avinyan, who became mayor in 2023, has obviously improved his income. After the 2018 power change-revolution, Tigran Avinyan immediately became the deputy prime minister from the rank-and-file member of the "Yelk" faction of the Yerevan Council of Elders and presented his first declaration in 2018.
In those days, Tigran Avinyan declared an income of around 15 thousand US dollars, but he had only 600 thousand AMD and 2475 thousand US dollars. Avinyan's investments in securities amounted to 7,000 USD. In 2018, Tigran Avinyan declared one real estate, a garage. In 2018, he also presented an annual declaration, declaring around 13 million 771 thousand drams. Comparing the incomes he received during these 6 years, the "Zhoghovurd" daily reported that Tigran Avinyan's incomes increased unspeakably, from 13 million drams in 2018 to 45.5 million drams. According to Tigran Avinyan, the declaration of real estate, income, expenses and interests for the reporting year of 2023 in Yerevan the mayor had 45.4 million drams in income last year.
Of these revenues, 20 million drams are the salary received from the Yerevan Municipality, 14 million drams were received from the sale of a garage in the center of Yerevan. The mayor received the remaining 11.3 million drams from the Poolin cryptomining platform. But even in the sale of the garage, the press saw corruption risks. As he wrote to FactorTV, the buyer of the garage is the authorized representative of "Zeytun Construction" LLC, "Yerevan Development Investment Program Implementation Office", which is a community organization. Among the cryptocurrencies declared by Avinyan, the volume of Bitcoin doubled to 3.62 in 2023.
Let's note that the value of 1 Bitcoin has crossed the threshold of 95 thousand US dollars at the moment. Other cryptocurrencies of the mayor have remained the same as in 2022: ADA Cardano: 1,483, Ethereum 5. The mayor of Yerevan has declared a private house that does not belong to him, but which he has been using for more than 90 days (perhaps registered in someone else's name, as is "traditionally" done in such cases). Thus, Tigran Avinyan, whose party leader speaks every night, has an almost 3.5 times increased income. from the fight against corruption: "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper, taking into account this and other corruption suspicions published in the press, from the spokesperson of the Mayor of Yerevan was interested. "Whether or not Avinyan was invited by any law enforcement organization within the framework of any corruption case during this time?"
But the municipality replied that the issue is not in their domain, we should contact the law enforcement officers.
