Criminal proceeding initiated on concealing the object of taxation by entering distorted data into the company's tax calculations in order to avoid paying taxes in particularly large amount, 1 billion 272 million 101 thousand 940 AMD, committed by the owner of a number of gas stations, V.K., and a group of individuals, particularly, distorting the data of natural gas metering devices supplied and sold by the aforementioned companies through software interventions, carrying out illegal gas transportation using pre-adapted trucks, making false reports, is investigated in General Department for Investigation of Economic Crimes and Smuggling of the RA Investigative Committee.

In the course of preliminary investigation apparent factual data were obtained on the allegation that the illegal process of evasion of taxes in particularly large amount committed by V.K. has been carried out in 18 gas stations owned by him.

Besides, criminal case initiated on concealing the object of taxation by entering distorted data into the company's tax calculations in order to avoid paying taxes in particularly large amount, 1 billion 79 million 341 thousand 404 AMD, committed by the owner of a number of gas stations, N.G., particularly, distorting the data of natural gas metering devices supplied and sold by the aforementioned companies through software interventions, carrying out illegal gas transportation using pre-adapted trucks, making false reports is also investigated in the general department.  

The illegal process of evasion of taxes in particularly large amount committed by N.G. has been carried out in 18 gas stations.

By the decisions of the Chairman of the RA Investigative Committee investigative groups have been formed within the abovementioned criminal proceedings in which 50 investigators were involved.

On March 7, 2025 the investigative groups, with the help and participation of the employees of the Operative Intelligence Department of the State Revenue Committee and the Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, conducted simultaneous searches in 36 gas stations, as well as 7 other addresses of interest to investigation.

Within the criminal proceedings public criminal prosecution was initiated against 16 people according to the Points 1 and 2 of the Part 3 of the Article 46-290 of RA Criminal Code.

Motions on imposing detention as a pretrial measure against 7 people were submitted to court, to 3 of which detention was imposed as a pretrial measure, to 4 of them home detention, bail and absence ban were imposed as a pretrial measure.