By Noubar Serabian

 In 2017, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan used to run from one Armenian city to another and scream with a megaphone in hand that he is the “Crusader” who will end the reign of the “Talanchi”/looters who drained the public treasury to amass a personal wealth.

 

In May 2018, in a dire warning designed for the ears of the “Old Guard”, Pashinyan highlighted the nightmare corrupt bureaucrats will face, by pointing out that “Not one official that makes corrupt, clan-based decisions [The Karabagh Clan] and accepts bribes should sleep well… Corruption is a cancerous tumour, which for many years has squeezed the lifeblood out of Armenia,”

 

On 21 Feb 2019, during a government cabinet session “Pashinyan instructed his ministers to forge ahead, at full force, with the campaign to eradicate corruption in Armenia.” Pashinyan also reminded corrupt looters that “In Armenia, those stealing from the people must be caught, charged, ridiculed, morally destroyed and sent to jail.” In other words, No one is above the law. If you are tied to acts of corruption, ineluctably, under the watchful eyes of Pashinyan, you will end up in jail.

It seems that Pashinyan, the sociopath populist demagogue, was uttering the previously mentioned statements to satisfy, with empty promises not tangible deeds, the cravings of Armenians sick and tired of the endemic corruption that permeated every sphere of the government’s bureaucracy, where public officials were using their position for private gain.

In March 2024, an entity known as 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 & 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐎𝐂𝐂𝐑𝐏), surprised Armenia and the rest of the world with a report titled “𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐡: 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬.”

 

The report of the OCCRP lists the names of dozens of party members (140) who, according to Civil Contract Party (CCP) records made substantial donations to the party. Of course, there is nothing wrong in collecting donations from Pashinyan’s loyal followers. But according to OCCRP, serious problems not minor accounting irregularities exist with the donations:

 

a) Many CCP members investigated by OCCRP did not even remember making donations. Their names were used and abused to obscure the sources of illegal revenues that ended up in the hands of CCP officials.

 

b) Many CCP members with humble annual salaries made donations, according to party records, 5 times bigger than their total annual income. If you are not taking bribes from your position in the government’s bureaucracy, how can you pad your income so much, and divert a substantial portion of it, under the label of “donation” to the party.

 

c) Many CCP members working in the government bureaucracy received bonuses several times a year for their hard work to serve the Armenian nation. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐱-𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲.

 

It also became obvious, that the same pattern of tempering with donations remained in effect in 2023. Armenian news outlet Infocom unravelled “…suspicious patterns in the party’s 2023 donor report, including similar donations from 88 local council candidates, as well as large sums of money donated by people connected to big businesses.”

 

When OCCRP’s report reached the public domain, Pashinyan and CCP officials reassured Armenians that an elaborate investigation will examine party records, and any person that can be associated with an illegal activity will be held accountable.

 

Of course, in Armenia, like any other corrupt country under the autocratic rule of a populist leader like Pashinyan “the wheels of justice turn exceedingly slow” and the legal system often takes a very long time (sometimes forever) to resolve cases, especially if the accusations are closely linked to the ruling political party –Armenia’s Civil Contract Party.

 

By July 2025, nothing was made public about the illegal donations swelling the bank account of the Civil Contract Party. Despite the scandalous accusations that stretched into 2025, the party was never investigated thoroughly by the appropriate State institutions, and Pashinyan took advantage of a high-level international conference held in Dilijan (1-2 July, 2025), to reassure foreign dignitaries that “The government’s policy is to demonstrate zero tolerance towards corruption and corrupt practices, and we remain consistent in that path.” Of course rules have exceptions, and “Zero Tolerance” policy has not been adopted and enforced universally in Armenia.

A veteran observer of investigative bodies and courts in Armenia made the following comments in an article published in November 2025:

“Established in 2021 and fully operational by 2022, the Anti-Corruption Court was intended to mark a new era in the fight against financial crime…[Under Pashinyan’s rule] it has not been possible to overcome the politicization of the justice system, resulting in criminal cases against disgraced officials and opposition figures often being handled subjectively through the prism of political expediency. At the same time, investigations into current authorities are frequently blocked.”

On 24 Dec 2025, while chairing the meeting of the Anti-Corruption Policy Council, Pashinyan played the same broken record that the donations and revenues generated by Armenian political parties, should be anchored in a financial system where transparency, accountability, and legal liability should be vigorously pursued. Pursued does not necessarily mean applied and enforced. Exemptions can be granted to Nikol’s CCP due to the invaluable services rendered to the Armenian nation.

American journalist and author Oliver Kornetzke wrote the following about the most famous political figure currently leading America to the abyss of economic collapse and political turmoil, but it is also an accurate depiction of who Pashinyan is:

“Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been [since 2018]—arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is [Armenia’s] shadow made flesh, a rotting [tree] proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity [Nikol Pashinyan] and calls it a leader.”

Do we want this obscene personality, this rotten tree, this abomination called Pashinyan to remain in power beyond the elections of June 2026? You might be able to find the answer in the following article:

Can A Bad Tree Like Pashinyan Give Armenia Good Fruits?

I strongly encourage readers who are interested in knowing how Armenia’s destiny will unfold in 2026 to watch the following interview where an attempt is made to answer questions such as;

– Where were we in the early stages of 2025?

– Where are we at the end of 2025?

– Where are we heading in 2026, and the disasters that we have to confront if Pashinyan wins the elections of June 2026?

PASHINIAN IS THE AMBASSADOR OF AZERBAIJAN TO ARMENIA. HE WANTS ONLY ONE THING – ARTHUR KHACHIKYAN

PASHINYAN IS THE AMBASSADOR OF AZERBAIJAN TO ARMENIA. HE WANTS ONLY ONE THING: MONOPOLY OF POWER – ARTHUR KHACHIKYAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw4mSzryVnE

Between now and June 2026, every Armenian voter must read and memorize the following dire warning of Octavia Butler:

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” 

If you extend Pashinyan’s stay in The Office of The Prime Minister of Armenia beyond June 2026, you will be selling yourself and those you love into slavery.

P.S. Prof. Arthur Khachikyan covered in the following video presentation the corrupt methods, used by Pashinyan and his inner circle, to loot the public treasury and turn it into the private fortune of his family members (brother-in-law) and close associates.

How Armenia is being robbed: numbers and facts. Arthur Khachikyan
How Armenia is being robbed : numbers and facts. Arthur Khachikyan

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=iyzfcvEG3Pw