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News.am: Pashinyan’s Appointee Acquired Five Apartments and a Mercedes Worth $160,000 While Working in Public Office

Tigran Petrosyan, head of the Food Safety Inspectorate of the Republic of Armenia, who has held various positions in the Prime Minister’s Office since 2020, purchased a new Mercedes-Benz worth $160,000 in 2025. As News.am writes, after examining the official’s annual declaration of property, income, expenses, and interests, Petrosyan’s income for the reporting year amounted to approximately 17.6 million drams.

According to the declaration, Petrosyan owns nine properties, seven of which are in Yerevan. Five of them were acquired over the past four years. At the beginning of the year, the official declared three vehicles, two of which he sold. The 2019 Mercedes was sold for 32 million drams, while the 2001 Ford truck was sold for 1.2 million drams. On September 11, Petrosyan acquired a new Mercedes-Benz manufactured in 2025 for 61.535 million drams.

At the end of the year, his cash holdings amounted to $165,000, €17,000, and 127 million drams. The official also declared a watch worth 5.1 million drams. Meanwhile, as of December 31, the outstanding principal balance of his loan amounted to approximately 147.5 million drams.

According to News.am, in 2025 Petrosyan received a salary of 16.7 million drams from the Food Safety Inspectorate, as well as 864,000 drams in rental payments from YUMA GROUP LLC.

Tigran Petrosyan is a member of the Civil Contract party and holds delegate status. Until 2013, he worked at the National Security Service, after which he went into business, heading Air Logistic Cargo LLC from 2018 to 2022. From 2020 to 2021, he served as deputy director of the Kond Residential Complex Management State Non-Commercial Organization under the Prime Minister’s Office, and from 2022 to 2024, he was director of the Spasarkum State Non-Commercial Organization. In November 2024, he was appointed deputy head of the Food Safety Inspectorate, and since June 24, 2025, he has headed the agency.

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