Deputy Yerevan mayor gifted luxury car in 2022

Panorama
Armenia – June 13 2023

Deputy Mayor of Yerevan Tigran Avinyan has submitted an annual declaration of income and assets for 2022 to the Corruption Prevention Commission.

According to the document seen by Hayastan.News, Avinyan received a garage as a gift in 2014, in 2021 he purchased a 2014 Honda car, which he sold for $11,000 in the reporting year.

Avinyan owns a mansion in Yerevan’s Arabkir administrative district. In 2022 he was gifted a Volkswagen car worth 19,000,300 drams (approx. $50,000) by his father, Armen Avinyan.

According to Hayastan.News, Avinyan was gifted a white Volkswagen ID.4 SUV.

The deputy mayor declared 1,890,000 drams on bank accounts, as well as electronic accounts and cryptocurrencies.

He declared $3,000 dollars in cash. At the beginning of the year he had 26,300,000 drams, which reduced to 12,500,000 drams at the end of 2022.

His father also gifted Avinyan property worth 11,000,000 drams.

Tigran Avinyan has a loan of 13,000,000 drams from ARMBUSINESSBANK. He was paid a salary of 5,212,000 drams by the Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) and 3,700,000 drams by the Yerevan Municipality for the period from 23 September 2022 until the end of the year.

Avinyan's spouse Mariam Pahlavuni owns a mansion and drives a 2017 Range Rover, which she bought in 2020. She has zero drams on her bank account and has declared 1,300,000 drams in cash.