Hetq.am-writes:
2024 In October, seven officials registered in the gift register the gifts they received during official events, the value of which exceeded 40 thousand. A person holding a public office and a public servant is obliged to register the received gifts in the register of gifts. On the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the formation of the Anti-corruption Committee, on October 23, a group of employees received expensive gifts from the Committee.
Stepan Nazaryan, Deputy General Secretary of the Anti-Corruption Committee, received an expensive watch worth 172 thousand from the Committee. The head of the Anti-corruption Committee, Sergey Arakelyan, received a gold-plated, 25.6-gram silver watch. The price of the watch is AMD 172 thousand. is AMD.
On the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the formation of the committee, Sasun Khachatryan, the former chairman of the anti-corruption committee, received a silver watch from the General Prosecutor's Office. is AMD.
The National Security Service also received 125,000. presented a watch worth drams to Arsen Martirosyan, the deputy head of the Anti-Corruption Committee.
Gayane Babayan, Chief Accountant of the Financial Budget and Accounting Department of the Committee, received 85 thousand. A desktop souvenir with the logo of the Anti-Corruption Committee, worth AMD.
On the same occasion, Bagrat Adamyan, a senior investigator of the Committee for Special Important Cases, received a wristwatch with a rose gold coating, worth 77 thousand. During the month of October, General Prosecutor Anna Vardapetyan received 7 different gifts, the total value of which was 420,000 drams. In particular, Vardapetyan was presented with souvenirs from the Prosecutor General's Offices of the Republics of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Belarus within the framework of the 34th session of the Coordinating Council of Prosecutor Generals of the CIS member states.
Note that 40 thousand Permissible gifts with a value not exceeding AMD are not subject to accounting, except for periodic (5 or more) receiving gifts from the same source within 6 months.
According to the Public Service Law, the concept of "gift" implies any property advantage, including a forgiven claim, a concession of a claim gratuitously or at an obviously inadequately low price, property given away gratuitously or sold at an obviously inadequately low price, a service rendered gratuitously or at an inadequately low price, performed work, as well as preferential lending, funds, cryptocurrency, gratuitous use of someone else's property or other activities, as a result of which a person receives a benefit or advantage.
However, there must be a connection that it is provided on the condition that a person (including a related person) holds a position. It is allowed to receive the gifts given within the framework of state or official visits, events, as well as working visits, business trips, and the usually organized hospitality.
The value of gifts is estimated based on the reasonable market value that can be estimated through open sources.
It should be noted that if the value of gifts given within the framework of state, official visits or events, as well as working visits, business trips, as well as ceremonial gifts given by foreign countries, international organizations or other persons exceeds 60 thousand. dram, then it is considered state or community property.
Persons holding public office and public servants are obliged to hand it over to the state or community in the prescribed manner.
In this case, the gifts received by the seven officials are considered state property.
