How to find the beneficial owners of an Armenian company

An Armenian company carries three identifiers and people mix them up constantly. The tax identification number (ՀՎՀՀ, HVHH, 8 digits, for example 02560453) is the one on invoices, contracts, bank forms and the procurement registry; if a document gives you one number, it is this one. The registration number (format 211.190.00190) is the state register's own serial and appears on the registration certificate. The unique identifier (8 digits, for example 39014171) is the key in the register website's URLs and nowhere else.

As of 13 Sep 2026 the register's search box resolves an exact 8-digit tax ID and a registration number as well as a name. If you have the tax ID, search it; if you only have a name, search the name, open the card, and confirm the tax ID on the card against the tax ID on your document. Names repeat (there are many "Ararat" companies); tax IDs do not. The step-by-step check is in our guide to verifying an Armenian company by tax ID.

Armenia adopted the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) with Open Ownership's help. Mining companies declared first, from 2021; the obligation has since been extended sector by sector. Each declaration page renders four sections (A to D: the company, the owners, the nature of control, the indirect chain) and carries a download button that hands you the whole declaration as a BODS 0.2 JSON array, the same format used by the UK and other publishers.

What a declaration names: each natural person behind the company in Armenian script and Latin transliteration, their nationality, the kind of interest (shareholding, voting rights, right to appoint the board, other influence or control), whether it is direct or indirect, the date it started, a politically-exposed-person flag, and the legal ground on which the person counts as an owner. Ground 3 means ownership is dispersed and the person named is the general manager, which is a director, not an owner; read the ground before you write "owned by".

What it does not carry: the share percentage. The structured data records the interest type but not the size, and the HTML view rarely states it either. For the exact split you still need the certified extract.

A company with several declarations has a time series. Kapan Mining and Processing Company, a mining CJSC, has 18 dated declarations on its card; the newest is the current state and the older ones show when owners changed. Take the newest for "who owns it now" and keep the list for "since when".

Armenia's public procurement registry (PPCM, part of ARMEPS at armeps.am/ppcm/public/contracts) lists every signed state contract with the buying authority, the supplier, the value, the signing date, the procedure and any appeal. Every row carries the supplier's 8-digit tax ID, the same ՀՎՀՀ you confirmed on the company card, so the two sources join without name matching.

Search by supplier and you get a company's whole public-sector income at a glance: who buys from it, how much, and how often the award was single-source (ՄԱ, a contract signed without competition). That last column is where most Armenian procurement stories start. From the 236,159 contracts in our weekly index (registry as of 29 Aug 2026): single-source awards fell from 52.04 percent of contract value in 2018 to 6.83 percent in 2026, while by count roughly four procedures in ten are still awarded without competition; 1,017 companies get over 90 percent of their public revenue from a single state buyer, and 618 have exactly one buyer. The full numbers, the CSVs and the caveats are in two open analyses: single-source awards, 2018 to 2026 and where the single-source money moved.

Two practical notes. The registry shows supplier names in the script they registered in, so an English name search can miss a company that registered in Armenian; the tax ID does not miss. And the Ministry of Finance has contracted a new procurement platform with a launch target of 1 Jan 2027, so bookmark the tax ID, not the URL.

For one company, the card and its declarations take five minutes by hand. For a list, or for an AI agent that needs the owners as data, Reestri reads the card live, parses every declaration's BODS JSON into a flat owners list (names in both scripts, nationality, interest type, since-date, PEP flag), and returns one JSON record with a source URL, timestamp and content hash. I built it and I sell it, pay per lookup on Apify, no subscription. It reads only the public pages, never the paid extract, and it drops owners' home addresses at ingest.

The contracts tool queries the same weekly PPCM index the analyses above are built from, by tax ID or name, and returns one record per contract with the buyer, value, procedure and appeals. Supplier emails, bank account numbers and staff identifiers that the registry leaks are stripped and never stored.