Talin community leader and Civil Contract party member involved in  corruption scheme: Anticor.am

ArmInfo.  Talin Community Head Tavros Sapeyan, a member of Armenia's ruling Civil Contract party, has over the past three years constructed a clear corruption scheme to benefit his family and the party, diverting millions of drams from the community budget to companies owned by him and his associates. This was reported by anticor.am.

According to the source, in 2023, Sapeyan Brothers LLC, whose equal  shareholders are Tavros Sapeyan's father, Edik Sapeyan, and his  uncle, Zhora Sapeyan, won two tenders to supply liquefied and  compressed gas to the Talin Community Municipality. The total value  of the two contracts was 15,714,000 drams, and the Sapeyans' company  was the sole bidder in both tenders. The agreements were signed on  January 3, 2023, and April 5, 2023. Thus, from his first year in  office, the community leader conducted transactions with the family  business using community funds.

It is noted that the Corruption Prevention Commission recorded a  violation of the law on conflict of interest by Tavros Sapeyan:  "Tavros Sapeyan, having committed an action within his authority that  resulted or could have resulted in a conflict of interest, failed to  submit a corresponding declaration." The Commission initiated  administrative proceedings, officially recording the conflict of  interest.

In 2024, Tavros Sapeyan declared a conflict of interest,  acknowledging that a company owned by his father and uncle had  participated in municipal procurement. However, the actual situation  remained unchanged:  instead of the family, it turned out that a  party partner had appeared.

The new formal player was Arsur LLC. In 2025, the Talin Municipality  signed a new contract for the supply of liquefied and compressed gas  not with Sapeyan Brothers LLC, but with Arsur LLC. However,  anticor.am reports that this company is actually owned by Tavros  Sapeyan, and this was simply an attempt to falsify the documentation.

The contract, valued at 11.6 million drams, was signed on September  30, 2025. The contract was concluded without a tender, through a  direct purchase, in the form of a request for quotations.

It was revealed that the owner of Arsur LLC is Artur Akopovich  Torosyan, registered as a shareholder on October 18, 2023.

He is the brother of Suren Torosyan, head of the Talin Municipality's  Public Utilities Department, while Suren Torosyan is Sapeyan's direct  subordinate and a member of the Civil Contract party. He is regularly  noted for his intolerance of the opposition. A criminal case is under  investigation in the Aragatsotn Court against him, according to which  he beat a young man with opposition views. However, Suren Torosyan  has never served a single minute in prison. Moreover, the name  "Arsur" is derived from the names of the owner and his brother: Artur  + Suren = ARSUR.

Even the sale permit was issued by Tavros Sapeyan, Decision No.  219-A, on February 7, 2025.

"In other words, the head of the community, with his signature,  allowed his subordinate to become the community's primary supplier.  Clearly, the ownership of the company "ARSUR" is purely nominal,  while its actual beneficiary is Tavros Sapeyan himself.

The corruption scheme is very simple:

The family business was formally replaced by a company registered in  the name of a party subordinate, while the community's funds continue  to circulate within the same political and personal circles.

This is an example of a classic systemic corruption network, where  family ties, although transferred to the party sphere, remain in the  community's funds," the publication writes.