Criminal case instituted in Armenia on the fact of violations in pension sphere
18.05.2011,
03:31
Department on the protection of state interests of General Prosecutor’s Office of Armenia instituted a criminal case on the fact of violations in the sphere of social insurance for spending and abuse of power.
YEREVAN, May 17. /ARKA/. Department on the protection of state interests of General Prosecutor’s Office of Armenia instituted a criminal case on the fact of violations in the sphere of social insurance for spending and abuse of power.
Studying the materials of the results of checks in the State Service of Social Security, the Department detected that high officials occupying organizational-managerial positions in the period of 2009-2010 received large amounts of 113 million 181.9 thousand drams from state budget and pocketed them, thus causing significant damage to the state.
General Prosecutor’s Office concluded that a group of high officials due to their personal profit or group interests, used their positions contrary to the interests of service, as well as did not perform their duties, including obvious forged records in the official documents and assigning double pensions on the basis of false documents using the names of dead people.
By the decision of the head of department on protection of state interests A.Nikoghosyan a criminal case was instituted by clause 1, part 3, article 179 of criminal code (Pocketing or spending), part 2, article 308 of criminal code (Abuse of power) and part 1, article 314 (Service forgery).
Control Chamber of Armenia detected violations in the result of checks in the sphere of pension and benefit payments and reported to the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. In its result, on December 17, 2010 Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan dismissed the head of State Service of Social Security Vazgen Khachikyan from his occupied position.-0-
Studying the materials of the results of checks in the State Service of Social Security, the Department detected that high officials occupying organizational-managerial positions in the period of 2009-2010 received large amounts of 113 million 181.9 thousand drams from state budget and pocketed them, thus causing significant damage to the state.
General Prosecutor’s Office concluded that a group of high officials due to their personal profit or group interests, used their positions contrary to the interests of service, as well as did not perform their duties, including obvious forged records in the official documents and assigning double pensions on the basis of false documents using the names of dead people.
By the decision of the head of department on protection of state interests A.Nikoghosyan a criminal case was instituted by clause 1, part 3, article 179 of criminal code (Pocketing or spending), part 2, article 308 of criminal code (Abuse of power) and part 1, article 314 (Service forgery).
Control Chamber of Armenia detected violations in the result of checks in the sphere of pension and benefit payments and reported to the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. In its result, on December 17, 2010 Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan dismissed the head of State Service of Social Security Vazgen Khachikyan from his occupied position.-0-
