The Prosecutor General’s Office report, according to Armen Ashotyan, deputy chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia, “serves as a propaganda balloon for Nikol Pashinyan’s regime,” claiming that over the past seven years, “property and funds worth $773 million have allegedly been returned to the state.”

Ashotyan emphasized that official figures, like any other reported information, must always be verified.

“Let us put aside the fact that the vast majority of such cases proceed and end with blatant legal violations. I fully acknowledge that in some cases, the outcomes can be legitimate.

Yet, here we have a hungry mob talking about filling the state budget, during whose tenure: the country’s external debt has increased by more than $8 billion; weapons worth over $6 billion have been donated to Azerbaijan; a bounty exceeding $200 million has been distributed; tens of billions of dollars’ worth of property, resources, and territories in Artsakh have been handed over to Azerbaijan. Not to mention thousands of human lives lost.

To grasp the audacity, consider this calculation: $773 million ÷ 5,000 = $154,600. This is the value assigned to each human loss under their tenure – roughly the price of a three-room apartment.

Would you exchange the life of your son, husband, brother, grandson, or father for a three-room apartment?” Ashotyan remarked.

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