"Zhoghovurd" daily writes:
"Davit Arakelyan, known by the nickname "Fish", was appointed to the position of Chief Secretary of the National Assembly on February 3, 2023, by the decision of Alen Simonyan. From the 2024 declaration of real estate, income, interests and expenses posted on the website of the Corruption Prevention Commission, we learn that Davit Arakelyan has no real estate of his own and lives in an apartment owned by another person, which he has been using for more than 90 days. In 2021, Arakelyan received a Toyota car of 2016 as a donation, which he sold last year for 6.6 million drams.
It is not clear from whom he received a gift of about 7 million drams. The balances in the bank accounts of the head of the National Assembly's staff amounted to 1 million 377 thousand drams. Arakelyan also has 6,474 FTN of cryptocurrencies. His cash resources amounted to 32 thousand dollars, 14 million 250 thousand drams, 7 thousand euros and 2 thousand Swiss francs. It is interesting how Arakelyan earned this money. He did not declare their parentage. Let us inform you that Arakelyan's income for the reporting year amounted to 22 million 76 thousand drams, of which 15 million 376 thousand drams are wages from the staff of the RA National Assembly, 6.6 million drams are the income received from the sale of a car, and only 100 thousand drams are "other income" from the RA State Revenue Committee.
In 2024, Arakelyan spent 15.5 thousand dollars in one go. What he took, he hides again. Davit Arakelyan, being the chief-secretary of the staff of the National Assembly, is a member of the "Civil Agreement" party. Let's remind that it has been almost 9 months since the RA Investigative Committee recognized 5 journalists as victims in the case of obstructing their professional activities in the NA Lodge, but until now no step has been taken to bring the perpetrators of the crime to justice.
"Zhoghovurd" daily reported that 5 journalists were recognized as victims in the case of forcing journalists out of the lodge allocated for their activities. The basis of this proceeding is the application of Daniel Ioannisyan, coordinator of the "Union of Informed Citizens" NGO. Let us remind that on June 12, 2024, when the police were detonating illegal grenades at the intersection of Baghramyan-Demirchyan streets, during the Government's question-and-answer session in the National Assembly, journalists were forcibly removed from the journalist's lodge so that they would not cover the National Assembly session.
On this occasion, in the RA Investigative Committee, a criminal proceeding was initiated under the features of Article 237, Part 2 of the RA Criminal Code, and they began to invite the journalists found in the lodge to the Arabkir Police Department, recognizing them as victims.
On February 24, "24 News" journalist Hermine Mikayelyan, "Zhoghovurd" editor Knar Manukyan, "Channel 5" journalist Karine Mangasaryan, News.am journalist Ruzan Khachatryan were invited to the committee. all of them were recognized as victims and were interrogated. The representative of "Zhoghovurd" daily gave specific names in whose presence the journalists' professional activities were hindered and who was standing to control the situation, supposedly giving instructions.
That instruction was allegedly given to the employees of the National Assembly by the head of the NA staff, Davit Arakelyan, who watched journalists being forcibly taken out of the lodge in the corridor of the lodge.
