Preliminary Investigation of Criminal Proceeding Initiated against Former Director of “Sevan National Park” SNCO Completed

V.G., holding the position of the deputy director, then the director of “Sevan National Park” SNCO, prepared a false handover-acceptance protocol and, with the assistance of a group of people, committed embezzlement in large amount - a total of 3 million 682 thousand 691 AMD from the SNCO.
Particularly, the contract signed between the SNCO and the company founded by V.G. envisaged the implementation of works on the establishment of a fence and a nursery. In the circumstances where the full scope of the works stipulated in the contract was not completed, the fact that the works stipulated in the contract were completed in full was confirmed on the basis of a false performance certificate. As a result, the SNCO transferred the entire contract amount to the company, 3 million 682 thousand 691 AMD of which was embezzled.
In addition, V.G., using his official powers, with the help of a group of people swindled money in large amount – 3 million AMD from the SNCO.
Besides, the former director of the SNCO prepared false reports and, with the help of a group of people, fraudulently embezzled from the state a particularly large amount of money, a total of 20 million 405 thousand 214 AMD. Then he committed money laundering in particularly large amount, intending to conceal and distort the nature and criminal origin of the money.
Public criminal prosecution was initiated against V.G. according to the Points 2 and 3 of the Part 2 of the Article 256 (2 counts), the Part 1 of the Article 445 (3 counts), the Point 3 of the Part 3 of the Article 255, and the Points 2 and 3 of the Part 3 of the Article 296 of RA Criminal Code.
Detention was selected as a pretrial measure against the former director of the SNCO, and search was declared.
On March 27, 2025 a decision was made to conduct remote proceeding against V.G..
The criminal proceeding with the bill of indictment was sent to the prosecutor.