Real Estate, 22.6 Million Dram of Illegal Income, and More: The Prosecutor's Demand from a Former Customs Inspector

The Anti-Corruption Court has accepted for proceedings another claim from the Office of the Prosecutor General regarding the confiscation of property of illegal origin.

The Prosecutor General’s Department for the Confiscation of Property of Illegal Origin has submitted a demand to the court to confiscate, in favor of the Republic of Armenia, from the former chief customs inspector of the Ararat Customs House of the State Revenue Committee, Samvel Manveli Hovhessyan, and an affiliated individual the following:

• 3 real estate properties,
• 1 right to purchase a property,
• 1 vehicle,
• 1 participation in a legal entity,
• 30 million 581 thousand dram of invested deposit,
• an illegal part of a loan demand right amounting to 1 million 759 thousand dram,
• 945 thousand dram as remaining illegal income and funds.

A total of 22 million 661 thousand dram, which has not been substantiated by the individual’s legal income from 2017 to 2025, has been deemed of illegal origin, transferred to a bona fide acquirer, or cannot be identified and confiscated based on the provisions of Article 20, Part 4 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia on Confiscation of Property of Illegal Origin.