News - The Prosecutor's Office is investigating assets belonging to creative associations.

During the government meeting on December 4, Attorney General Anna Vardapetyan informed that the Prosecutor's Office is studying those state-owned properties that are illegally managed by NGOs. They are different kinds of associations: at present, properties belonging to the journalists' union, the painters' union, the writers' union, and several other creative associations are under study. In reality we do not interfere with their work or create problems; we simply do not allow the chain of dispossessions to continue. Fortunately, in our investigations so far we have not managed to dispossess a large number of properties. The painters' union is in relatively worse condition; as for the others, it seems we haven't fallen behind by much. Here we are simply breaking this possible corrupt chain because the properties are not being disposed of directly. They are disposed of by those connected to these individuals. Essentially, the properties are acquired cheaply by these individuals and later disposed of to third parties at tens or hundreds of times more expensive. We are studying these chains and at present we are not allowing dispossessions to continue, said Anna Vardapetyan. In response to the prosecutor, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted that there is no intention, no desire, and no threat to obstruct the activities of creative associations in any way. There is no such problem at all. It is a matter of proper governance of property owned by Armenia and the public and of establishing proper relations.