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Iranian national arrested in Armenia for attempted opium shipment to Australia
An Iranian citizen has been arrested in Armenia while attempting to send a package containing 233 grams of opium to Australia, the Armenian State Revenue Committee (SRC) ... ... protocol was drafted, and the Iranian national was detained on suspicion of drug smuggling. The case has been handed over to investigators for further processing.
08/29/2024Caucasus Heritage Watch sounds the alarm: Azerbaijan massively destroys cultural heritage in Artsakh
Caucasus Heritage Watch’s latest report on Armenian cultural sites targeted by the Azerbaijani regime found a 75% increase in destroyed sites since fall 2023. YEREVAN,... ... spring 2021, when we began monitoring cultural heritage following the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War,” wrote CHW’s Principal Investigators Ian Lindsay, Adam T. Smith, and Lori Khatchadourian in a summary. They noted that they had paid special attention ...
06/24/2024Five high-ranking Economy Ministry officials, including ex-Minister Kerobyan, accused of corruption
Eight people, including five officials of Armenia’s Ministry of Economy, are accused of apparent abuses committed during a tender announced for the purchase of services ... ... pre-qualification stage- a U.S.-registered software company Synergy International Systems and Harmonia company, According to the investigators, acting on the instructions of their superior, the ministry officials held meetings and telephone conversations ...
02/16/202436-year-old Yerevan man accused of stealing cryptocurrency worth 88 million drams
For the first time in Armenia, a criminal case of cryptocurrency embezzlement will be brought to court. The accused is a 36-year-old resident of Yerevan,... ... that 129 ETH (Ethereum) worth 236 thousand US dollars disappeared from his cryptocurrency wallet under unknown circumstances. Investigators determined that the theft was committed by a 36-year-old resident of Yerevan, a programmer by profession, who illegally ...
12/29/2023Former Gyumri mayor accused of money laundering and illegal alienation of real estate
Former mayor of Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri Vardan Ghukasyan is accused of illegally alienating more than 20 real estate properties ... ... properties in the community worth about AMD 35.69 million, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Armenia reported. Investigators found that Ghukasyan, with the assistance of a number of officials, initiated alienation of 24 real estate objects,...
12/18/2023Company commander accused of driving soldier to suicide in Armenia - Investigative Committee
Armenian Investigative Committee said today that a commander of a rifle company was arrested on charges of driving a soldier to ... ... Aleks Avanesyan, in the presence of the latter's fellow servicemen for falling asleep while on duty. The soldier, according to investigators, later shot himself from the automatic rifle. The commander of the company is accused also with using violence against ...
09/25/2023Armenian investigators reveal money laundering scheme totaling 190 mln. Drams
Armenia's Investigative Committee has uncovered a money laundering scheme that was used to steal 190.7 million drams. ... ... law-enforcers managed to identify only one person of a group of fraudsters - a 33-year-old resident of Yerevan. According to the investigators, a group of persons, under unclear circumstances, stole over 190 million drams from foreign card accounts located ...
09/11/2023Two companies engaged in paid parking services accused of embezzling over 770 million drams
... Security Dream and Ellipses G.A. , two companies engaged in rendering video policing and paid parking services are accused by Armenian Investigative Committee of fraud, falsification of documents and embezzlement of more than 770.96 million drams. ... ... a number of employees of these two companies had developed a fraudulent scheme for embezzling especially large amounts. The investigators established the amount of damage caused to the state. During the preliminary investigation almost 290.3 million ...
08/21/2023Armenian National Assembly's committee approves bill to almost double salaries of investigators
The Armenian parliament’s committee on state and legal affairs has approved today a government bill to raise the salaries of investigators by 92%. YEREVAN, May 15. /ARKA/. The Armenian parliament’s committee on state and legal affairs has approved today a government bill to raise the salaries of investigators by 92%. Arsen Ayvazyan, deputy chairman of Armenia’s Investigative Committee, said investigators examine 90-95% ...
05/15/2023Government approves rise in investigators' salaries
The Armenian government has approved today a set of amendments to the law that regulates remuneration of persons holding public posts, which call for raising the salaries of employees of the Investigative Committee. YEREVAN, April 21. /ARKA/. The Armenian government has approved ... ... reported that after the passage of the amendments, the budget would have to earmark 3.12 drams to pay higher salaries to 975 investigators. ($1 - 387.21 drams). --0--
04/21/2023Armenian man detained for illegal sale of branded watches
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have detained a man, who is accused of selling expensive watches without paying taxes. ... ... celebrities. SRC officers conducted a test purchase of a Rolex watch worth $45 500. During the personal search of the man the investigators discovered $20,000, 330 UAE dirhams, 50 Euros and a Breguet watch. -0-
04/12/2023Nor Zovk company restores 2 billion drams of avoided taxes
The owner of Nor Zovk LLC, identified by investigators as A.A., the director of Nor Zovk chain of supermarkets, identified as R.A. and the chief accountant identified ... ... replaced with written undertaking not to leave the country, pending the end of the investigation, the Investigative Committee of Armenia reported. The Investigative Committee said earlier that, A.A, who owns 100% in Nor Zovk LLC, by prior agreement with the ...
04/07/2023Criminal case on death of 15 servicemen initiated against head of engineering service of military base
The head of the engineering service of a military base in Armenia's Gegharkunik province, identified as T. K., has been charged with military negligence resulting in the death of a person ... ... The military unit was in the village of Azat, in eastern Gegharkunik province that borders with Azerbaijan. According to the investigators, an officer of the unit used a large amount of petrol to start a fire in a wood stove used to heat the barracks,...
02/17/2023Criminal prosecution initiated against officer who poured gasoline into barracks stove causing fire that killed 15 soldiers
The Office of Armenia's Prosecutor General has announced today the launch of criminal prosecution against the captain of a sapper company of ... ... The military unit was in the village of Azat, in eastern Gegharkunik province that borders with Azerbaijan. According to the investigators, an officer of the unit used a large amount of petrol to start a fire in a wood stove used to heat the barracks,...
02/01/2023Second military officer detained in connection with military barracks fire
A second Armenian military officer was detained in connection with January 19 fire in a barracks of a military unit in Gegharkunik province ... ... The military unit was in the village of Azat, in eastern Gegharkunik province that borders with Azerbaijan. According to the investigators, an officer of the unit used a large amount of petrol to start a fire in a wood stove used to heat the barracks,...
01/31/2023Armenian prosecutors charge deputy commander of military unit where fire killed 15 soldiers with military malpractice
Armenian prosecutors have charged deputy commander of a military unit, where a fire killed 15 soldiers on January 19, with military ... ... The military unit was in the village of Azat, in eastern Gegharkunik province that borders with Azerbaijan. According to the investigators, an officer of the unit used a large amount of petrol to start a fire in a wood stove used to heat the barracks,...
01/26/2023Investigative Committee provides details of fire in military unit that killed 15 soldiers
Armenia's Investigative Committee said the fire that broke out in the early hours on January 18 in the barracks of a military ... ... The military unit was in the village of Azat, in eastern Gegharkunik province that borders with Azerbaijan. According to the investigators, an officer of the unit used a large amount of petrol to start a fire in a wood stove used to heat the barracks,...
01/20/2023Armenian prosecutors seek to confiscate 800 million drams worth property from former chief prosecutor
... forfeiture of property owned by a former Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan and three affiliated persons in favor of the Republic of Armenia. YEREVAN, Jan. 11. /ARKA/. A department of the Office of Prosecutor General in charge of confiscation of assets deemed ... ... Special Investigative Service issued an arrest warrant for Kostanyan after he ignored their demand to return to Armenia and answer investigators’ questions. Kostanyan, who now lives in Moscow, is prosecuted on five counts of abuse of power, forgery and cover-up ...
01/11/2023Head of Investigative Committee: more than 70 officers are being tried as defendants in 44-day war cases
The chairman of Armenia's Investigative Committee Argishti Kyaramyan said some 70 Armenian career army officers are involved as defendants in ... ... interrogated in relation to these cases. According to him, numerous episodes are still under investigation. Separate groups of investigators are working on the criminal cases involving the 10th and 18th Divisions, the 1st Army Corps, the fall of Shushi....
01/05/2023Armenian SRC shuts down illegal sand quarry (video)
Acting on a tip Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) has shut down al sand quarry that had been operating illegally in the village of Getashen ... ... shut down al sand quarry that had been operating illegally in the village of Getashen in Armavir province. According to the investigators, a resident of Yerevan had acquired 2 hectares of agricultural land near Getashen community and instead of growing ...
08/05/2022Armenian government adopts new strategy for judicial and legal reforms
The Armenian government adopted a new strategy for judicial and legal reforms at a meeting on Thursday. YEREVAN, July 21. /ARKA/.... ... will be available electronically. The reliability of all judges will also be verified as part of the fight against corruption. Investigators, prosecutors and other law enforcement officers will also be vetted. There are also plans to create an Arbitration ...
07/21/2022Video and photo surveillance on roads in Armenia to be entirely state-owned
The Armenian government will create a new state non-profit organization called "Electronic Video and Photo Control Center" ... ... the process of investigating traffic offenses, it turns out that video recordings of the incidents are liquidated before the investigators get to them," Pashinyan said. --0--
07/14/2022Private university in Armenia accused of $235,000 tax evasion
Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) said today that the Armenian-Russian Mkhitar Gosh private university is suspected of ... ... case was launched on the grounds of a grave evasion of taxes, duties or other obligatory payments. The case was referred to the investigators. Suspect or accused of an alleged crime is considered innocent until proven guilty according to the court decision,...
06/20/2022Opposition leader urges law-enforces to join the struggle against Pashinyan
... Vanetsyan, a former dirctor of the National Security Service (NSS) and the current head of Pativ Unem opposition faction in the Armenian parliament, called today on his colleagues in law enforcement agencies 'to join the fight for the people and the country.... ... against the people of Armenia. I call today on my former colleagues not only in the NSS, but also in police, on prosecutors and investigators - to everyone who wears shoulder straps - to join our fight," Vanetsyan told reporters on Freedom Square in ...
04/27/2022Armenian Minister of Emergency Situations and some of his subordinates arrested on charges of corruption
Armenian Minister of Emergency Situations Andranik Piloyan has been charged with corruption and a petition for his arrest has ... ... ministry, including the heads of various departments are detained, the Anti-Corruption Committee said. Piloyan was detained by investigators on March 30. Eight more people, including ministry's officials, were charged with complicity in bribery, fraud, ...
03/31/2022Armenian parliament votes to raise retirement pensions of judges, prosecutors and investigators
Armenia’s National Assembly has approved today in the first reading a set of amendments to the law on social security of persons holding public office, which call for raising the size of retirement pensions of judges, prosecutors and investigators. YEREVAN, March 2. /ARKA/. Armenia’s National Assembly has approved today in the first reading a set of amendments to the law on social security of persons holding public office, which call for raising the size of retirement pensions ...
03/02/2022Armenian law-enforcers complete preliminary investigation of espionage case involving former career army officer (video)
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said today that a preliminary investigation of a criminal case involving a former ... ... received information containing state and official secrets. They were charged with treason, confessed and were arrested. The investigators have also revealed special means for communication, mobile phones, training videos, and other items related to the ...
12/01/2021Sasun Khachatryan elected as head of new anti-corruption body
Members of the Armenian government unanimously elected today Sasun Khachatryan as head of the Anti-Corruption Committee. YEREVAN, September ... ... served as head of the Special Investigation Service. Khachatryan told the Cabinet members that the Committee that will have 20 investigators will begin to operate in a month and 6 days. According to him, the anti-corruption agency will start working in ...
09/16/2021Police detain six citizens on charges of possessing and using narcotics
The Armenian Police announced the completion of a successful operation that was designed to detain a group of persons involved in ... ... the Police, the Criminal Police Department received information about a drug sale scheme. The information was conveyed to the investigators of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police branch in Erebuni administrative district in the capital ...
07/20/2021Former mayor of Meghri arrested on charges of abuse of office
An Armenian court has allowed today to arrest Mkhitar Zakaryan, the former mayor of Meghri, a town in Armenia’s southern region ... ... trees, but the tenant used the territory for the construction of cafes and other buildings without appropriate permits. The investigators say the mayor of Meghri, contrary to his duties, did not prevent the illegal construction of buildings on the site ...
07/13/2021Armenian NSS arrests two citizens on charges of spying for Azerbaijan
Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) said today it has arrested a former career army officer and his friend on charges of ... ... received information containing state and official secrets. They were charged with treason, confessed and were arrested. The investigators have also revealed special means for communication, mobile phones, training videos, and other items related to the ...
06/07/2021Man shot dead in broad daylight in downtown Yerevan
A man was shot dead today on the downtown Abovyan Street in Yerevan in broad daylight near the Moskva Cinema, Novosti Armenia news agency reported. YEREVAN, June 2. /ARKA/. A man was shot dead today on the downtown Abovyan Street in Yerevan ... ... news agency reported. It said the murder was confirmed by Edgar Banyan, a press officer for the Armenian Police. He said police investigators were working on the crime scene to find out the circumstances. MP Naira Zohrabyan said on her Facebook page that ...
06/02/2021Armenian law-enforcement bodies arrest former Yerevan mayor Gagik Beglaryan
The Armenian Police said they arrested on May 17 the 57-year-old Gagik Beglaryan at the Zvartnots airport upon his arrival from Russian ... ... to the National Security Service, Beglaryan is suspected to be involved in a criminal money laundering scheme. According to investigators, Beglaryan illegally privatized a kindergarten building in central Yerevan when he ran the Armenian capital from ...
05/18/2021Armenia's National Security Service detains a businessman on charges of fraudulent transactions made for armed forces (video)
Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) has detained David Galstyan, a former adviser to the country's defense minister, on ... ... of this fraud, as well as to clarify the full circle of persons involved in the corruption mechanism. The NSS added that its investigators are currently investigating other criminal cases of abuse with the use of corruption mechanisms committed by David ...
02/01/2021Armenian Investigative committee brings charges against mercenary from Syria captured in Artsakh
The Investigative Committee of Armenia continues the investigation of the criminal case on the aggression unleashed and carried out by the military-political ... ... Investigation Department of the National Security Service, are carrying out large-scale inquiry and other procedural actions. The investigators decided to attract Mehrab Muhammad Al Shkher as an accused under the articles of the Armenian Criminal Code on international ...
11/02/2020Armenian investigators reveal $200,000 embezzlement at Football Federation
Armenia's Investigative Committee said it has revealed 98.8 million drams worth embezzlement (about $200 thousand) at the Football Federation of Armenia. YEREVAN, September 7. /ARKA/. Armenia's Investigative Committee said it has revealed 98.8 million ...
09/07/2020Armenian ex-parliament speaker's son accused of causing damage to state
Tigran Sahakyan, the son of a former speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Galust Sahakyan, is accused of causing damage to the state in the amount of 34.7 million drams, as well as of falsifying ... ... state in the amount of 34.7 million drams, as well as of falsifying data, the Investigative Committee reported. According to investigators, in 2003 then State Property Management Minister David Vardanyan allowed the privatization of the Ajapnyak supermarket ...
09/01/2020Eleven people die in Armenia after drinking counterfeit alcohol
Armenia's Ministry of Health said today that 23 cases of alcohol poisoning were reported in a time span from August 31 to September ... ... discharged from the Armenia medical center. Work is underway to clarify the circle of persons who have consumed bootleg alcohol, the investigators said. Law enforcement authorities have detained Ashot Hovsepyan, a resident of the town of Armavir, born in 1970,...
09/01/2020Ex-head of Armenia's National Security Service summoned for giving explanations (video)
Former director of Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsyan, who is now head of the Homeland party, was summoned to the National ... ... said. Vanetsyan explained that the criminal case in question is about reinstating an NSS officer in 2018 who according to NSS investigators, had no right for it. "Probably, Armenia's leadership and the current NSS director have problem in understanding ...
07/31/2020Armenian investigators reveal criminal group engaged in illegal tree felling
Armenia's Investigative Committee said it has uncovered a criminal group engaged in illegal felling of trees that has caused damages worth about 103 million drams. YEREVAN, July 30. /ARKA/. Armenia's Investigative Committee said it has uncovered a ...
07/30/2020Stones Company chief accountant detained as suspect in North-South Road Corridor investment program abuses
Armenia’s Investigative Committee continues conducting the preliminary inquiry in the fact of abuses committed in the implementation ... ... the treasurer of the Stones. On April 16, they were presented to the body carrying out the proceedings. On July 21, 2020, the investigators decided to change and supplement the charges brought against the chief accountant. On the same day, new charges ...
07/28/2020Armenian businessman Samvel Mayrapetyan is accused of $12 million tax evasion
Armenia's Special Investigative Service )SIS) said today investigators have expanded charges against businessman Samvel Mayrapetyan, who is now charged with tax evasion complicity in the amount of almost 5.7 billion drams (about $11.83 million). YEREVAN, June 25. /ARKA/. Armenia's Special Investigative ...
06/25/2020Armenian investigative committee reveals use of disappearing ink by kindergartens in Yerevan
Armenian Police said acting on a statement by the head of Shengavit administrative district of Yerevan, they checked 21 kindergartens ... ... in five kindergartens. The notes made by them disappeared upon thermal exposure. When checking the kindergartens' books the investigators found that in many cases, the initial numbers about receiving various types of food products were regularly changed....
02/17/2020Armenian prosecutor general's office sends to court criminal case with former president Serzh Sargsyan among accused persons
The Armenian Prosecutor General's Office sent today to court the file of a criminal case with former president Serzh Sargsyan among ... ... the Armenian government's reserve fund under state-support programs for purchasing about 15.4 million liters of diesel. The investigators insist that the criminal scheme was designed by Barsegh Beglaryan and organized by Serzh Sargsyan with the participation ...
01/29/2020Pashinyan urges Kutoyan's family to cooperate with the investigation
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan urged today the members of the family of Georgy Kutoyan, former director of the National ... ... high-ranking Investigative Committee official, said earlier that Kutoyan, 38, was killed by a gunshot fired at his head. He said investigators also found about 40 bullets in the apartment. The Investigative Committee said last week it had evidence that at ...
01/22/2020Investigative Committee: Glock 34 pistol that Georgy Kutoyan allegedly used to commit a suicide, did not have a silencer
The Glock 34 pistol that Georgy Kutoyan, former director of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia, allegedly used to commit a suicide, did not have a silencer. YEREVAN, January 22. /ARKA/. The Glock 34 pistol that ... ... Melikyan, a high-ranking Investigative Committee official, said Kutoyan, 38, was killed by a gunshot fired at his head. He said investigators also found about 40 bullets in the apartment. The Investigative Committee said it had evidence that at the end of ...
01/22/2020Armenian law-enforcement bodies' access to banking secrecy expands
Armenia's National Assembly has approved today in the second and final reading a set of amendments to the laws on criminal procedure ... ... authorities with information about financial accounts of only those clients who are accused or suspected of certain crimes. Besides, investigators need permission from prosecutors and courts before demanding access to such data. According to the Minister of Justice ...
01/22/2020Armenia's investigative committee unveils new information about Georgy Kutoyan's death
Armenia’s Investigative Committee unveiled new information about Georgy Kutoyan, former director of the National Security Service ... ... Melikyan, a high-ranking Investigative Committee official, said Kutoyan, 38, was killed by a gunshot fired at his head. He said investigators also found about 40 bullets in the apartment. More precisely, 35 shells and 6 bullets were found in the living room ...
01/20/2020More than 30 shells and bullets found in apartment, where Georgy Kutoyan was found shot to death
More than 30-40 shells and bullets were found in the walls of an apartment in Yerevan, in which Georgy Kutoyan, who headed Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) in the final years of former President Serzh Sargsyan, was found shot to death. ... ... department of the Investigative Committee, investigating serious crimes, said a Glock gun was found next to Kutoyan's dead body. Investigators found out that the gun was obtained legally. Melikyan said a criminal case was opened into the death of Kutoyan ...
01/17/2020Damage from fraudulence with former Armenian high-ranking officials' company amounts to $2.5 million
Investigators have received evidence of the illegalities committed by Armenia's high-ranking office, the press office of the police department reports. In particular, the officials, abusing their office powers, organized the privatization of the Radio CJSC in Gegharkunik province. YEREVAN, December 6. /ARKA/....
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