In the result of large-scale investigative and other procedural actions conducted in General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee circumstances of abuse of official authority, illegal entrepreneurial activity, breach of rules for protection and use of the lithosphere, arrogation and infliction of willful medium-gravity damage to health committed by the head of Goris community Arush Arushanyan were found out.

Pursuant to factual data obtained through investigation, A. Arushanyan, holding the position of the head of Goris community of Syunik province from November, 2017, aiming to engage in mining and mineral processing at the administrative area of Verishen settlement of Goris community, first registered ownership of 0.555 ha of agricultural land within the administrative boundaries of Goris community then by the decision of Council of Elders of Goris community put it for auction.

At the same time, aiming to engage in entrepreneurial activity at the mentioned area, A. Arushanyan founded an LLC in his relative’s name. Then the day after the company was founded – on 14, June, 2019 he published a formal announcement on the public auction notice website on selling the mentioned area on auction. A. Arushanyan’s relative was found the winner at the auction held on 15 July, 2015 and by the decision of community head and on the base of the real estate sale contract the mentioned land was alienated to the relative.

Then at the administrative area of Verishen settlement of Goris community – on lands of agricultural and industrial significance with a total surface of 12,425m2, land with a surface of 0,555m2, two more lands with a total surface of 9146m2 registered in his relative’s name, as well as lands of agricultural significance with a total surface of 9309,8m2 owned by a number of citizens, through the above-mentioned LLC, without signing an agreement on using lithosphere with the competent body, right to use lithosphere, mining act, permits of water use, permissible marginal leakage, limit permissible emissions, positive conclusion of the environmental impact assessment expertise, acquisition of the right to ownership or use of land and change in the significance of land, with violations of RA Laws “On Lithosphere”,  “On Environmental Impact Assessment and Expertise”, “Water Code”, Land Code” and other normative requirements regulating the field, from the second quarter of 2020 to 10 March, 2021 A. Arushanyan illegally carried out entrepreneurial activity subject to licensing and use of lithosphere without an agreement, that is extraction of sand-gravel mass of 25939,1m3 in total,  processing and sale through crushing, causing significant damage of 699,737 AMD in total to the community, environment and minerals trapped in the subsoil, damage of 774,198 AMD - to the people and damage in particularly large amount - 28,218,821 AMD – to the state.

Besides, in order to get clarifications on deficit of 33,000,000 AMD recorded through inventory carried out in January-February, 2020 in another LLC owned by his family and to force to compensate the damage, in February, 2020 A. Arushanyan called the LLC employee to the company’s warehouse and during the meeting using physical violence and threatening to use violence demanded that the employee should give him his car of “Nissan Pathfinder” make, should put the apartment which belonged to the latter’s wife’s parents as collateral for the bank loan and give him the loan funds. In order to carry out his intention Arushanyan took the car key, technical passport, his passport as well as the documents of the above-mentioned apartment from the employee without taking the latter’s will into consideration. Then he returned the documents through deputy head of the community to take up the collateral process and he possessed the car for 42 days thus depriving the employee of the right to manage, possess and use the property.

Besides, on August 28, 2020 a resident of Goris driving in several streets of Goris in his car of “Mercedes Benz” make, met the community head’s car of “Mercedes Benz 500” and compulsorily bypassed the latter which made Arushanyan angry and he instructed to stop the car to get clarifications for allegedly not driving properly. A row erupted during which two friends of community head held the young man’s hands and A. Arushanyan first hit him on the nose with a head then on the left eye after which he hit him on the face and different parts of his body causing damage of medium gravity to the latter. Then Arushanyan approached the man’s car, scolded again, dragged and tore the license plate of the car.

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On the base of the obtained sufficient evidence charge was pressed against Arush Arushanyan according to the Part 1 of the Article 308, the Point 1 of the Part 3 of the Article 188, the Part 2 of the Article 291, the Part 2 of the Article 322 and the Points 3 and 6 of the Part 2 of the Article 113 of RA Criminal Code. Mortgage was used as a pretrial measure against him. Ban was imposed on real estate owned by Arushanyan in the amount of the damage caused to the state. Charge was pressed against the latter’s two friends according to the Points 3 and 6 of the Part 2 of the Article 113 of RA Criminal Code and against the sales director of the LLC according to the Point 1 of the Part 3 of the Article 38-138 of RA Criminal Code. Signature not to leave was chosen as a pretrial measure against them.

Preliminary investigation was completed and the criminal case with the bill of indictment was sent to prosecutor supervising the legality of preliminary investigation with a motion to send to court.

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