General Manvel’s son Karen Grigoryan charged with gross embezzlement
25.06.2018,
13:42
General Manvel’s son Karen Grigoryan, who was Echmiadzin mayor until recently, was charged Saturday with gross embezzlement in collusion with other persons, the Special Investigation Service reports.
YEREVAN, June 25. /ARKA/. General Manvel’s son Karen Grigoryan, who was Echmiadzin mayor until recently, was charged Saturday with gross embezzlement in collusion with other persons, the Special Investigation Service reports.
Mavel Grigoryan, his father, who was a member of the National Assembly and the head of Yerkrapa (the Union of Karabakh War Veterans), was arrested earlier.
He had established the benevolent fund ‘General Manvel Grigoryan’, to which individuals and organizations transferred money. Some donations came also in cash.
The national security service officers searched the territories owned by Manvel Grigoryan and found guns and armament there.
They also found a collection of expensive cars and a private zoo here.
One finding aroused a strong public outcry – there was also the aid raised yet in 2016 for soldiers of the four-day April war in Artsakh.
Later, the prosecutor general’s office filed a motion to court asking it to authorize his pretrial detention.
According to the office, there is enough evidence for charging Manvel Grigoryan with illegal purchasing, selling and keeping guns and armament, including explosives and with gross embezzlement.
The National Assembly of Armenia, responding to the Armenian prosecutor general’s motion, voted Tuesday to strip MP Manvel Grigoryan of immunity from prosecution.
The suspect will remain in detention pending trial.
His son, Karen Grigoryan is charged with gross embezzlement.
In May, 2016, members of the regional nongovernmental organization ‘The Armenian Community in the Russian Federation’ bought three trucks, thermal cameras and military uniforms for participants of the four-day April war.
The organization representatives, accompanies by Karen Grigoryan, traveled to Artsakh, where handed the above-mentioned property to him and his father in a hope that they would pass it on to the Artsakh army.
But instead of passing the property to the army, they snatched it and kept it in Echmiadzin using it for personal purposes.
Karen Grigoryan is left at large but after he gave a written pledge not to leave the city. The investigation is under way now. -0---
Mavel Grigoryan, his father, who was a member of the National Assembly and the head of Yerkrapa (the Union of Karabakh War Veterans), was arrested earlier.
He had established the benevolent fund ‘General Manvel Grigoryan’, to which individuals and organizations transferred money. Some donations came also in cash.
The national security service officers searched the territories owned by Manvel Grigoryan and found guns and armament there.
They also found a collection of expensive cars and a private zoo here.
One finding aroused a strong public outcry – there was also the aid raised yet in 2016 for soldiers of the four-day April war in Artsakh.
Later, the prosecutor general’s office filed a motion to court asking it to authorize his pretrial detention.
According to the office, there is enough evidence for charging Manvel Grigoryan with illegal purchasing, selling and keeping guns and armament, including explosives and with gross embezzlement.
The National Assembly of Armenia, responding to the Armenian prosecutor general’s motion, voted Tuesday to strip MP Manvel Grigoryan of immunity from prosecution.
The suspect will remain in detention pending trial.
His son, Karen Grigoryan is charged with gross embezzlement.
In May, 2016, members of the regional nongovernmental organization ‘The Armenian Community in the Russian Federation’ bought three trucks, thermal cameras and military uniforms for participants of the four-day April war.
The organization representatives, accompanies by Karen Grigoryan, traveled to Artsakh, where handed the above-mentioned property to him and his father in a hope that they would pass it on to the Artsakh army.
But instead of passing the property to the army, they snatched it and kept it in Echmiadzin using it for personal purposes.
Karen Grigoryan is left at large but after he gave a written pledge not to leave the city. The investigation is under way now. -0---
