Preliminary investigation of the criminal case initiated on swindling in particularly large amount by cheating from several people committed by the director of LLC engaged in legal activity was completed in General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases.

On November 11, 2018 three criminal cases initiated on swindling in the Investigative Department of the RA National Security Service, RA Prosecution Office and the RA Police were received in the RA IC General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases which, by investigator’s decision, were joint in one proceeding considering that the apparent crimes had been committed by the same person.

In the result of investigatory actions of great volume conducted within the criminal case all circumstances, mechanism of swindling in particularly large amount were found out.

Pursuant to data obtained through investigation the director of LLC engaged in legal activity, with the purpose of swindling somebody else’s property in particularly large amount by cheating and abusing confidence, not having an opportunity and intention to keep his promise, swindled money in particularly large amount from citizens who had applied for legal aid.  

Thus, he promised the resident of Yerevan to formulate an apartment being built in a semi-built multi-apartment building in her name. Under this pretext the LLC director required and received 13 424 900 AMD part by part which, according to agreement, should have been transferred to the construction company. However, he did not do it swindling the mentioned money transferred to him.

Besides, under the pretext of not filing a lawsuit to court against a dental clinic, not applying to Mass Media and compensating the citizens affected LLC director received 3.500.000 AMD from the director of the mentioned clinic and his wife. However, he did not transfer the mentioned money to anybody and swindled by cheating.

Then, under the pretext of transferring the money for education to the bank account of the RA Ministry of Defense he required and received 9 775 000 AMD from a citizen through a bank transfer as well as in his working room. However, he did not transfer the mentioned money to the bank account of the RA Ministry of Defense swindling it by cheating.

On the base of the obtained sufficient evidence charge was pressed against LLC director according to the Point 1 of the Part 3 of the Article 178 of RA Criminal Code (three counts). Signature not to leave was chosen as a pretrial measure against him.

Taking into consideration that the evidence obtained through investigation are sufficient to send the criminal case with the bill of indictment to court, preliminary investigation was completed and the criminal case with the bill of indictment was sent to prosecutor supervising the legality of preliminary investigation.

Note; Everyone charged with alleged crime offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.