Employees of nature protection state inspection of Armenia are blamed for taking bribes
YEREVAN, February 18. /ARKA/. Preliminary investigation of criminal case against Tigran Grigoryan, head of department and Arsen Petrosyan, deputy head of department of state nature protection inspection of Armenia is finished.
It appeared that in 2009 Arsen Petrosyan inspected basalt and gypsiferous clay subsoil operated by “Delta-Fragment” Ltd. in Yerevan by the assignment of the Minister of Nature Protection.
For not including the detected violations in the protocol and reduction of penalty size, Petrosyan required 400 thousand drams from Vardan Aslanyan, director of “Delta-Fragment” Ltd. and received the bribe on December 16, 2009.
In the process of investigation it was disclosed that Petrosyan agreed with Tigran Grigoryan beforehand and received bribe in the amount of 5 million drams (about 13.2 thousand US dollars) on December 28, 2009 from assistant of Board of Directors of “Akhtala ore-dressing and processing enterprise”.
Inspectors required the mentioned amount for prolongation of the dates of handing-over and operation of water-supply system located in the gorge Ayrum-Chochkan-Lori region.
On the basis of the evidence T.Grigoryan was accused by Clause 2, Part 4 of Article 311 of Armenian Criminal Code (Accepting bribes in very large amounts) and A.Petrosyan – by Clause 2, Part 4 and Clause 3, Article 311 of Armenian Criminal Code (Accepting bribes in very large amounts).
The case was sent to the competence of general court of administrative districts of Kentron and Nork-Marash. -0-
