ARMENIANS PAYING FOR NON-EXISTENT CARS
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 19 2014
19 February 2014 – 8:23am
Armenians who had sold their cars about 10-15 years ago have been
receiving fines for absence of motor third-party liability insurance
since the start of this year, according to new motor insurance rules
that came into force on January 1. The daily fine totals 500 drams.
The traffic police have apologized for any “technical problems and
laxities” with administrative acts. Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan
ordered the traffic police to help people properly register vehicles.
Until recently, the laws did not oblige people to register purchase
and sale of cars at traffic police offices. The situation changed in
2013 and people who sold their cars need to reregister.
Tigran Ovannisyan, President of the League for Protection of Drivers,
said that such problem may only cause confusion because reregistry
of cars can only happen after deletion of old registries. Armenia has
a whole army of drivers who sold their vehicles and need to pay some
10,000 drams ($25) for non-existent cars.