YEREVAN, DECEMBER 15, NOYAN TAPAN. The hearing of the lawsuit filed by the Gyumri tax inspection of the RA State Tax Service against "Chap" LLC - the founder of "Gala" TV company will start at the Gyumri court of the RA Economic Court on December 17, at 11 a.m. NT was informed by the headquarters on protection of speech freedom and "Gala" television company that the plaintiff asks that 26 million drams be confiscated from "Chap" LLC, which, in the opinion of the public, is an incorrect sum from the legal and accounting viewpoint. A counter-suit will be submitted at the hearing. It is expected that on Dedember 17 Gyumri mayor's office will announce the amount of the monthly payment (past and future) for the use of the television tower. To recap, on December 13 the mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghukasian received on his own initiative a group of representatives of the public who came to the mayor's office to inform them about the rally scheduled for December 19. During the meeting with the mayor, the chairman of "Asparez" journalistic club Levon Barseghian proposed that a tripartite agreement be signed between him, the mayor's office and "Chap" LLC, by which L. Barseghian is obliged to pay a reasonable amount of the past debt, while the mayor's office was proposed to give up its decision to solve the problem in court and to rent the television tower to "Gala" for a reasonable payment.

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