In the result of investigatory actions of great volume conducted in the framework of the criminal case investigated in the Department of Investigation of Corruption Crimes, Crimes against Property and Cybercrimes of General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee data were obtained on apparent abuses by a former minister and former deputy.

In 2017 a report was submitted by the director of universal credit organization on using the authorities by the former executive director of the same company against the interests of the company and providing numerous organizations with loans through breach of internal legal acts of the company and requirements of RA legislation in 2012 – 2016.

A criminal case was initiated in Arabkir Division of the RA Police according to the Part 1 of the Article 214 of RA Criminal Code which was received in the proceeding of the Investigative Division of Arabkir administrative district of Yerevan Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee.

On the base of the obtained evidence in 2017 a decision was made to involve the former executive director as a defendant according to the Part 1 of the Article 214 of RA Criminal Code and signature not to leave was chosen as a pretrial measure against her. Necessary investigatory actions went on within the criminal case to provide the comprehensive investigation. As a result, actual data were obtained on other apparent criminal manifestations, as well.

Particularly, three different criminal cases were initiated on submitting false documents to the RA Central Bank in the name of one of the shareholders of the credit company according to the Part 1 of the Article 325 of RA Criminal Code, extortion of the LLC share of the former executive director according to the Part 3 of the Article 182 of RA Criminal Code and cashing and squandering 500.000 USD from a citizen’s bank account by the former executive director under the pretext of making investments in the LLC according to the Point 1 of the Part 3 of the Article 179 of RA Criminal Code. These criminal cases were joint in one proceeding and the further conduction of preliminary investigation was tasked to General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee.

Investigatory actions of great volume were conducted to find out the frame of those having committed the alleged crime, to personalize the actions of each of them.

As a result, data were obtained on relation of former high-ranking officials to apparent criminal manifestations. Particularly, the former minister of the RA Transport and Communication G. Beglaryan’s name was mentioned as a person related to extorting the share of the former executive director of the universal organization, illegally collecting secret bank information. Besides, data were obtained on apparent cases of exceeding official authorities by the former RA NA deputy M. Sedrakyan.

Considering that preliminary investigation of criminal cases on crimes related to official position by heads of the RA legislative and executive bodies or crimes committed by them is conducted by investigators of the RA Special Investigatory Service on August 28, 2018 a decision was made to send the mentioned criminal case to the RA Special Investigatory Service according to investigatory subordination.

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