Investigators withdraw money, jewelry and gold bars from Ara Minasyan’s deposit boxes
05.12.2018,
15:58
Armenia’s Investigation Committee has unveiled some details of an investigation into a criminal case brought against Ara Minasyan, the former head of Surb Grigor Lusavorich Medical Center in Yerevan, who is accused of embezzlement of government funds allocated for free examinations and treatment of civil servants.
YEREVAN, December 5. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Investigation Committee has unveiled some details of an investigation into a criminal case brought against Ara Minasyan, the former head of Surb Grigor Lusavorich Medical Center in Yerevan, who is accused of embezzlement of government funds allocated for free examinations and treatment of civil servants.
The Investigation Committee said today that a preliminary inquiry into the case has found that Are Minasyan and some of his subordinates forged documents from 2016 to September 30, 2017, to embezzle especially large amounts of government funds.
Based on a set of evidence, the investigator decided that arrest must be applied to Minasyan on the grounds of clause 1 of part 3 of article 178 (particularly large-scale fraud) and part 2 of article 325 (forgery of documents) of the Armenian Criminal Code. Minasyan has been hiding from the investigation, and his whereabouts are unknown. He has been put on a wanted list, the Investigation Committee said.
Two former employees of the medical center were charged on the grounds of paragraph 1 of part 3 of article 38-178 (complicity in a large scale fraud) and part 2 of article 325 of the Criminal Code.
The Investigation Committee said to compensate for the damage caused to the government, the investigator decided to apply arrest to t $272.900 worth bank accounts of Ara Minasyan, his two apartments in the center of Yerevan, real estate properties in Kotayk and Shirak regions, as well as movable property.
According to Investigation Committee, $30 thousand, 15 thousand euros were withdrawn from the deposit boxes belonging to Minasyan, as well as 31 gold bars and jewelry weighing 500 grams, 39 commemorative coins of various sizes made of gold and other precious metals.
In early November an Armenian court rejected investigators’ request for an arrest to be applied against Ara Minasyan ‘because the petition was ungrounded.’ -0-
The Investigation Committee said today that a preliminary inquiry into the case has found that Are Minasyan and some of his subordinates forged documents from 2016 to September 30, 2017, to embezzle especially large amounts of government funds.
Based on a set of evidence, the investigator decided that arrest must be applied to Minasyan on the grounds of clause 1 of part 3 of article 178 (particularly large-scale fraud) and part 2 of article 325 (forgery of documents) of the Armenian Criminal Code. Minasyan has been hiding from the investigation, and his whereabouts are unknown. He has been put on a wanted list, the Investigation Committee said.
Two former employees of the medical center were charged on the grounds of paragraph 1 of part 3 of article 38-178 (complicity in a large scale fraud) and part 2 of article 325 of the Criminal Code.
The Investigation Committee said to compensate for the damage caused to the government, the investigator decided to apply arrest to t $272.900 worth bank accounts of Ara Minasyan, his two apartments in the center of Yerevan, real estate properties in Kotayk and Shirak regions, as well as movable property.
According to Investigation Committee, $30 thousand, 15 thousand euros were withdrawn from the deposit boxes belonging to Minasyan, as well as 31 gold bars and jewelry weighing 500 grams, 39 commemorative coins of various sizes made of gold and other precious metals.
In early November an Armenian court rejected investigators’ request for an arrest to be applied against Ara Minasyan ‘because the petition was ungrounded.’ -0-
