Armenian Prime Minister’s Two Charter Flights Cost Taxpayers $130,000

RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has begun to take charter flights, which is quite costly for the budget, reports local daily Zhoghovurd.

According to documents Zhoghovurd has in its possession, the PM’s two recent flights cost taxpayers more than 58.5 million AMD, or about $130,000 USD. Twenty-one million AMD was spent from Armenia’s state budget to arrange a special flight for the visit to Moscow, and more than 37.5 million AMD for the visit to Brussels, reports the paper.

The new flights were carried out by the newly launched Air Armenia airline company. Earlier Zhoghovurd had reported that Air Armenia belongs to Republican Party of Armenia MP Davit Harutyunyan’s brother.

For more information, see today’s issue of Zhoghovurd (in Armenian only).