Public Criminal Prosecution Initiated against Members of Criminal Group in 107 Counts
Preliminary investigation of multi-episode, large-scale criminal proceeding, initiated on frauds and realization of counterfeit money committed through pre-planned and jointly developed criminal mechanisms was completed in the Department for Investigation of Crimes against Property of General Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee.
In the course of preliminary investigation factual data were obtained on the allegation that with the intent to commit fraud, from May, 2021 to May, 2025 N.P., alone, as well as with V.Gh. and other individuals not yet identified, as part of a group, developed criminal mechanisms to commit fraud.
Particularly, the members of the criminal group made orders at attractive prices to taxi and freight drivers, asked them to buy some goods and transport with them to the mentioned place, however they did not transfer the money. Then they asked to transfer various amounts of money to bank accounts which allegedly belonged to them, but actually belonged to other taxi drivers, thus stealing the money transferred by the citizens.
Besides, the members of the criminal group called several citizens and introduced themselves as meat suppliers, then providing false information, they stole the slaughtered animals belonging to the citizens.
In another case, getting acquainted with the announcements made by citizens on the "List.am" website, regarding the sale of mobile phones, the members of the criminal group called them, made arrangements and instead of money, provided them with banknotes that are considered souvenirs and are not a means of payment. As a result, they fraudulently stole the citizens’ mobile phones.
The amount of money stolen from the victims by the members of the criminal group ranged from 20,000 to 1 million 200 thousand AMD.
In the course of preliminary investigation a public criminal prosecution was initiated against V.Gh. according to the Parts 1 and 2 of the Article 255 of RA Criminal Code (5 counts), and against N.P. according to the Parts 1 and 2 of the Article 255 (100 counts), the Point 3 of the Part 2 of the Article 476 (1 count), and the Point 1 of the Part 2 of the Article 267 (1 count) of RA Criminal Code.
Home detention and absence ban were applied as a pretrial measure against V.Gh., detention was applied as a pretrial measure against N.P..
The criminal proceeding with the bill of indictment was sent to the prosecutor.
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