In the result of materials prepared on the base of calls on breaches recorded in different polling stations of precinct N 4 during referendum on Constitutional reforms held on December 6, 2015, received in the Investigative Division of Arabkir administrative district of the RA Investigative Committee 3 criminal cases were initiated on forging the voting results.

Thus,

1. On December 6, 2015 at 23:20 a call was received in Arabkir Station of Operations Control Center of Yerevan administrative district of the RA Police informing that the representative of “Armenian National Congress” Vahram Tockmajyan called them and told that the polling ballots for “No” had been stolen and polling ballots for “Yes” of the same quantity had been added in polling station N 4/26. During preparation of materials in the Investigative Division of Arabkir administrative district of the RA IC V. Tockmajyan submitted an explanation and a report informing that during referendum on Constitutional reforms held on December 6, 2015 in polling station N 4/26 located at 8, Vahram Papazyan, Yerevan at about 21:00 an unidentified person had stolen 219 ballots voted for “No” and instead of it ballots of the same quantity voted for “Yes” had been added. 

Considering that in the prepared materials there are apparent features of crime envisaged by the Article 150 of RA Criminal Code (forgery of voting results), on 16 December, 2015 a criminal case was initiated in the Investigative Division of Arabkir administrative district according to the Article 150 of RA Criminal Code.

2. On December 7, 2015 at 04:35 a call was received in Arabkir Station of Operations Control Center of Yerevan administrative district of the RA Police informing that during summery of the results of referendum on Constitutional reforms held on 06.12.2015 breaches were being made in polling station N 4/20. During preparation of materials in the Investigative Division of Arabkir administrative district of the RA Investigative Committee the proxy of “Armenian National Congress” Ani Tovmasyan submitted an explanation and a report informing that during summery of the results of referendum on Constitutional reforms held on 06.12.2015 the voting results had been forged in the result of counting the votes in an incorrect way, as well as confirming the records with obviously wrong data by the Head of referendum commission of polling station N 4/20.  Considering that in the prepared materials there are apparent features of crime envisaged by the Article 150 of RA Criminal Code (forgery of voting results), on 16 December, 2015 a criminal case was initiated in the Investigative Division of Arabkir administrative district according to the Article 150 of RA Criminal Code.

3. On December 7, 2015 at 03:00 a report was received in Arabkir Station of the RA Police from the advocate of NGO “Against Violation of Law” Qristina Gevorgyan informing that during summery of the results of referendum on Constitutional reforms held on 06.12.2015, an obviously wrong confirmation on the results of referendum had been made by the commission of polling station N 04.05., the results of voting had been forged. On the base of the call materials were prepared in Arabkir Investigative Division of Yerevan Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee. Considering that in the prepared materials there are apparent features of crime envisaged by the Article 150 of RA Criminal Code (forgery of voting results), on 16 December, 2015 a criminal case was initiated in the Investigative Division of Arabkir administrative district according to the Article 150 of RA Criminal Code. 

Decisions were made to send the mentioned three criminal cases to the RA Special Investigatory Service according to investigative subordination.

Thus, as of December 17, 6 of criminal cases initiated in the RA Investigative Committee were sent to the RA Special Investigatory Service. 3 of initiated criminal cases were related to the Article 150 of RA Criminal Code (forging the results of voting), 3 were related to the Article 149 of RA Criminal Code (Hindrance to the free implementation of the citizen’s right to elect, or hindrance to the work of the election or referendum commission, as well as, hindrance to the implementation of the authorities of the persons taking part in referendum).

Note; According to the Article 190 of RA Criminal Procedure Code, investigation of electoral breaches specified in 4 articles of RA Criminal Code – Article 149 (Hindrance to the free implementation of the citizen’s right to elect, or hindrance to the work of the election or referendum commission, as well as, hindrance to the implementation of the authorities of the persons taking part in referendum), Article 150 (Forging the results of voting or referendum), Article 154.1 (Making false polling ballots or polling packages or dissemination of obviously false polling ballots or polling packages), Article 154.2 (Hindrance to free implementation of the citizen’s right to elect) shall be conducted by the investigators of the RA Special Investigatory Service.