In the course of preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding investigated in the Department for Investigation of Cybercrime and High Technology Crime of General Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee apparent factual data were obtained on the allegation that D.G. and V.S. created fake personal pages on “Facebook” with photos of compatriots, mainly living in the U.S. Introducing themselves to the friends and relatives of these people through the mentioned pages, in their names D.G. and V.S.  required money under various pretexts, through fraud and abusing their confidence. In order to receive the money, they provided previously created electronic wallets identified by their phone numbers for this purpose or electronic wallet and bank card data of businesses trading crypto assets in the RA, and stole the money transferred by the victims.

Besides, D.G. and V.S., with prior agreement committed money laundering in particularly large amount – 10 million 542 thousand 500 AMD.

Particularly, large amounts of money received on the electronic wallets identified by phone numbers, created to extort money from an unknown group of people, were converted into crypto assets by D.G. and V.S., which they later sold at another exchange point, turning it into 10 million 542 thousand 500 AMD. Then they received the money on the accounts of electronic wallets registered by the phone numbers in the name of D.G. and A.H., committing money laundering.

Public criminal prosecution was initiated against D.G. and V.S. according to the Points 1 and 3 of the Part 2 of the Article 255 and the Point 3 of the Part 3 of the Article 296 of RA Criminal Code.  

Home detention, bail and  absence ban were selected as a pretrial measure against D.G., detention was selected as a pretrial measure against V.S.. Search was declared against the latter.

686 thousand AMD, out of the damage caused, was recovered.

The criminal proceeding on D.G.’s part was sent to the prosecutor with the bill of indictment for approval and referral to court.