The number of cars serving the RA Prime Minister, as well as the funds allocated for the purchase and maintenance of these cars, are a state secret. This was reported by the Prime Minister's Office in responsePastinfoof inquiry.
"On December 6, we asked Araik Harutyunyan, the chief of staff, to inform us how many official cars serve the RA Prime Minister, how many cars were purchased to serve the Prime Minister in the last 3 years, how much money was allocated for the purchase of these cars, how much is the amount of annual maintenance of these cars. We have not received an answer to any of these questions.
In the letter received today, referring to Article 8 of the RA Law "On State Secrets", they said that this information is classified as a state secret. That said, taxpayers cannot know how much money from their taxes is spent on Pashinyan's cars.
Instead, they partially answered our other questions about how many official cars are serving the government, which government officials are served by them, whether new cars were purchased for the service of officials in the last 3 years and how much money was allocated for this purpose. Of course, there was no information about newly purchased vehicles, but we were told that 26 vehicles serve the Prime Minister's office.
According to the information provided to us, before November 22, when Nikol Pashinyan reduced the number of official cars in the video he published before the interview with the Public TV Company, 40 cars served the Prime Minister's office, after November 22, their number was reduced by 13 to 27. . The government explained to us that during the previous 3 days, one more car was removed from the staff car park.
It turns out that according to the survey, 26 cars are serving the Prime Minister's office today, while their number was 40 before November 22. This reduction could be impressive if it weren't for one big but...
The point is that "Pastinfo" made a similar request 5 years ago, in 2019, when Eduard Aghajanyan was Pashinyan's chief of staff," the news says.
