ArmInfo.Yerevan Municipality lost in court to Armenian businessman Samvel Aleksanyan regarding the construction of his building on the municipal territory, Mayor  Hrachya Sargsyan told reporters on June 3.

"The court ordered the Yerevan Municipality to legalize the  construction," he said.

As Sargsyan explained, the city administration lost the case in all  court instances and was forced to legalize the building.

It should be recalled that in September 2020, former MP, businessman  Samvel Aleksanyan filed a lawsuit against the Yerevan Municipality  because of the decision taken by Mayor Hayk Marutyan. The businessman  applied to the Administrative Court with a demand to invalidate the  decision No. 2898-A adopted on September 16, 2020 by the Mayor of  Yerevan.

According to this decision, Samvel Aleksanyan carried out the  construction (in 2015) of illegal buildings- constructions on a land  plot owned by the state, at the address of Shrjanain St 102/4,  Malatia-Sebastia administrative district, in connection with which  administrative proceedings were initiated at the mayor's office.  Thus, Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutyan decided not to legalize the  unauthorized buildings and structures at the specified address. In  addition, he instructed the head of the Malatia-Sebastia  administrative region, with the support of the Department of Urban  Planning and Land Control and the public order service, to dismantle  these unauthorized buildings and free the state-owned land from  illegal possession.