The Head of the RA State Property Management Department A.S., between 2011 and 2019 holding the position of the Chairman of  Yerevan City Public School Board, with the help of his brother, as well as other people, using official powers or the influence derived from them, between 2011 and 2018 legalized particularly large amount of property acquired through criminal means.

In the course of preliminary investigation factual data were obtained on the allegation that A.S., aiming to illegally acquire and legalize 1,939,029 square meters of land for himself and his relatives from the 15,523 square meter state-owned land plot that was given to the school with the right of free use and attached to the State Property Management Department, reached an agreement in advance with Yerevan Municipality officials to withdraw the mentioned property from the state property fund by illegally separating it and to formally include in the property fund of other people, after which to alienate to himself and his relatives thus legalizing property acquired through criminal means without obstacles.

Particularly, A.S. suggested the school principal to clarify the school boundaries under the pretext of improving the area and remove from its territory the garages previously built illegally by other persons.

The school principal submitted an application to the State Property Management Department addressed to A.S. asking to remove the garages from the school territory in the result of boundary clarification.

A.S. sent the application to Yerevan Mayor asking to assign the relevant subdivision to clarify the boundaries of the aforementioned school and at the same time reached a criminal agreement with the relevant officials of Yerevan Municipality to remove two more land plots owned by the school, separate from each other and not connected to the garages, from the school boundaries.

As a result, the project, drawn up with a false report, was approved by the decision of Yerevan Mayor and a new plan was issued. According to it, the actual area of ​​the land plot was 11,761.57 square meters, instead of 15,523 square meters as defined by the previous master plan.

Then in order to hide the criminal origin of the 1,939.029 square meter plot of land, which was unjustifiably reduced from the 15,523 square meter state-owned plot of land given to the school with the right to free use, illegally withdrawn from the state property fund and transferred to the property fund of the Yerevan Municipality as a result of his and Yerevan Municipality officials' criminal actions, A.S. organized the alienation of the aforementioned plot of land and other adjacent community-owned land plots to himself and his relatives through formal auctions.

On January 22, 2025 the prosecutor initiated a public criminal prosecution against A.S. according to the Points 2 and 3 of the Part 3 of the Article 296, against one person accoridng to the Points 2 and 3 of the Part 3 of the Article 46-296 and the Point 5 of the Part 2 of the Article 46-441 of RA Criminal Code, against six persons according to the Points 2 and 3 of the Part 3 of the Article 46-296 of RA Criminal Code.

Administrative supervision was applied as a pretrial measure against one person, bail and administrative supervision was appliedas a pretrial measure against one person, home detention was applied as a pretrial measure against one person, bail and home detention was applied as a pretrial measure against two persons, administrative supervision was applied as a pretrial measure against two perosns, administrative supervision and absence ban was applied as a pretrial measure against one person.