2013-2016 RA Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan, who is currently wanted by RA law enforcement officers, became a Russian citizen and has been registered in Moscow since January 2022, he writes."The trace".
Let's remind that after leaving the position of the Prosecutor General, in 2017-2019, Kostanyan was a member of the National Assembly from the RPA.
In September 2019, it became known that he was summoned to the RA Special Investigation Service (now the Anti-Corruption Committee) in connection with the March 1 case. At that time, according to the CSI, Kostanyan said that he was abroad and would return in 15-20 days. On November 25 of the same year, it became known that the former Prosecutor General was involved in the case of March 1 as accused, and he was offered to appear before the CSI within 48 hours to be charged.
Kostanyan responded that he was in Moscow and did not consider the requirement to appear in 48 hours reasonable. He said that he had signed a contract with the Russian Prosecutor's Office for the purpose of lecturing there and was going to return to Armenia after the end of the academic semester and exam period.
After this answer, CSI G. He announced an investigation against Kostanyan and petitioned the court to choose a preventive measure for the former official in 2019. on December 4, the court granted the motion.
Gevorg Kostanyan is charged with the articles of committing official forgery, as well as inciting to abuse official authority, inciting to commit official forgery, inciting to commit a serious or especially serious crime, inciting to falsify evidence in a criminal case regarding serious or especially serious crimes. However, in addition to criminal prosecution against the former Prosecutor General , there is also a claim for confiscation of property.
In January 2023, the Anti-Corruption Court accepted the lawsuit of the General Prosecutor's Office, in which the state body demands from its former head Kostanyan and 3 persons related to him to confiscate 1 apartment in Yerevan, 2 private houses in Tsaghkadzor and Jrvezh communities of Kotayk marz, and in case of impossibility, their average market value. which amounts to AMD 363,565,000 confiscated about 174 million drams as the remainder of the obtained illegal income, as well as about 276 million drams, which is not substantiated by the legal income of the person, has an illegal origin, was transferred to a bona fide acquirer or cannot be identified and confiscated.
Note that Gevorg Kostanyan's name is missing from the voters' register of RA.
If it is not a consequence of a technical error, then it can mean two things: either the former official is no longer a citizen of the Republic of Armenia, or he is a citizen, but does not have the registration of the Republic of Armenia.
"Hetk" found out that Kostanyan, who became a Russian citizen, was registered at 18 Namyotkin Street in Moscow, which, by the way, was built by businessman Samvel Karapetyan's "Tashir" group of companies.
The residential complex named "Rosemary" was commissioned in 2012.
It includes 2 buildings: a 31-story tower (address: Namyotkin 18, image below, right) and a residential building with different floors (12, 18, and 23) (address: Khersonskaya 43, image below, left). More at the source.
