In the result of large-scale investigative and procedural actions conducted in the Division of Investigation of Grave Crimes of Yerevan Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee the case of stealing the company’s money - 3.003,890.851,76 AMD by the relative of the founder of the LLC was disclosed.

Pursuant to data obtained through investigation, the cousin of the founder of the LLC, R.A had been working in the company since 1990. The company was engaged in procurement of industrial equipments, materials, row materials and their supply to state bodies of different countries, among them Turkmenistan. These were mainly implemented as a result of participating in international competitions organized within the framework of state procurement and being recognized as the winner.

Since 2009 R.A. had been the company’s representative in the Republic of Turkmenistan. Until 2012 the goods had been supplied to the state bodies of Turkmenistan directly. As a result, trust to R.A. was developed at the managers of the company.

In order to work more effectively and easily as well as at R.A.’s proposal, the company started to implement the supplies through the individual entrepreneurs registered in Turkmenistan. As a result, between 2012 and 2016 14 supply agreements were signed between the company and the mentioned individual entrepreneurs on 15.639.903 USD and 15.840 Euros in total within the framework of which Turkmen manat tantamount to 8.158.297.31 USD was transferred to the bank accounts of the individual entrepreneurs by Turkmenistan’s state bodies.

Managing the company’s financial outflows and inflows personally, making individual decisions, actually owning the goods supplied in that country and the money paid for them, between 2012 and 2018 R.A., together with persons unidentified yet, through cash withdrawals and transfers, willfully stole money in particularly large amount - 3.003,890.851,76 AMD tantamount to 22.170.572,38 Turkmen manat transferred for the goods supplied to the Republic of Turkmenistan by the LLC to the individual entrepreneurs’ bank accounts opened in the name of 4 individuals and actually managed by him. Then forging bank statements and documents proving the absence of transfers he assured the managers of the LLC that the stolen money had not been transferred to the bank accounts of individual entrepreneurs by the Republic of Turkmenistan thus creating an opportunity for him to own the stolen money.

On the base of the obtained sufficient facts charge was pressed against R.A. according to the Point 3 of the Part 3 of the Article 256 of RA Criminal Code. Detention was used as a pretrial measure against him. During preliminary investigation a decision was made to terminate public criminal prosecution against him within the count of committing forgery on the basis that the statute of limitations has passed.

Preliminary investigation on the part of R.A. was completed. The materials of the part separated from the criminal proceeding, with the bill of indictment, were sent to the prosecutor for approval and referral to court.

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