AUDIT CHAMBER REVEALS CASES OF STATE REGISTRATION OF REAL ESTATE ON ILLEGAL GROUNDS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 22, 2009

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. As a result of the checks conducted
by the Audit Chamber, a number of violations were revealed at 7
regional units of the State Real Estate Cadastre Committee adjunct
to the RA government. Particularly, violations of 14 million drams
were revealed with respect to staff maintenance. Chairman of the Audit
Chamber (AC) Ishkhan Zakarian said at a press conference following the
December 22 sitting of AC Council that this sum will be transferred
to the state budget until the end of 2009.

In his words, quite worrying facts were found during checks of the
transactions approved by the Cadastre’s territorial units based on
certificates given by communities. In particular, cases of wrong
classification of unauthorized buildings constructed in communities
were revealed when social buildings and structures were considered
as dwelling or production ones with a lower cadastral value. In some
cases state registration was done in the absence of the necessary
grounds. As a result, damage of about 260 million drams was done to
community budgets.

I. Zakarian said that in case of all transactions related to
registration, the communities must collect these sums and transfer
them to community budgets, otherwise the transactions on illegal
grounds shall be declared invalid.