Head of NA Committee on Social Affairs Among Armenia’s Wealthiest Lawmakers: Press

Head of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Social Affairs, ruling Republican Party MP Hakob Hakobyan is one of the wealthiest lawmakers in Armenia, local Zhoghovurd daily writes.

“Hakobyan declared AMD 26 million 700 thousand (about $55,321) and $132 thousand in financial assets for the last year. Meanwhile, in 2012, having only recently become an MP, Hakobyan had declared 9 land lots, 3 pieces of immovable property attached to the earth, 3 unfinished buildings, one private residential house, and shares in 4 companies,” the paper notes, stressing that the lawmaker's monthly wage is AMD 416 thousand ($862).