Officials of the Unified Social Service have been charged with accepting bribes from multiple beneficiaries and committing fraud. Criminal proceedings have been sent to court with an indictment
In the course of the preliminary investigation under the criminal proceedings initiated as a result of the activities carried out by the operative-investigative department of RA Anti-Corruption Committee, numerous cases of receiving bribes and illegal remuneration from beneficiaries, as well as committing fraud by officials of one of the territorial centers of the Unified Social Service of RA Ministry of Labor and Social Security have been revealed.
The former head of one of the administrative districts of Yerevan is charged with illegal expropriation of certain areas of a kindergarten, theft and money laundering in the amount of about AMD 19 million. The criminal proceedings have been sent to the co
According to the preliminary investigation carried out in the RA Anti-Corruption Committee as part of the criminal proceedings, it was established that the former head of one of the administrative districts of Yerevan, with the aim of illegally taking possession of the territory of a preschool institution in this community, entered into an agreement with his close person A. Sh. about the appropriation of the mentioned area from Yerevan community.
Representatives of the CSOs Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia met with Sasun Khachatryan, the Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee
Representatives of the civil society organizations (CSO) Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia, including Karen Zadoyan, the coordinator of the Coalition Secretariat, President of the Armenian Lawyers’ Association, and Movses Aristakesyan Chairman of the Governing Board of the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia, Head of the Center for Economic Rights, were hosted by the RA Anti-Corruption Committee on 1 March, 2024, to discuss a number of issues related to the scope of interest, as well as the Anti-Corruption Strategy of the RA and the Action Plan for 2023-2026 arising from it.
A number of cases of bribery by the official of the Unified Social Service have been revealed
According to the preliminary investigation carried out in the criminal proceedings carried out by the RA Anti-Corruption Committee, it was found out that the official of the unified social service of the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs demanded and received different amounts of money as a bribe in order to draw up retirement documents for a number of people, from November to December 2023.
The preliminary investigation in the case of officials of the Ministry of Defense accused of embezzlement and assisting of embezzlement of around 4 million AMD is completed
According to the preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings initiated by the RA Anti-Corruption Committee on the basis of the materials received from the military police of the RA Ministry of Defense, it was found that occupying the position of the commander of the battalion of the N military unit of the RA Ministry of Defense M. M. using his official and official powers, as well as the influence caused by them, both personally and with the help of the commander of one of the platoons of his battalion, stole material and property resources worth a total of about 4 million AMD entrusted to them.
Cases of receiving bribes and committing official forgery by officials of the RA State Revenue Committee revealed
In the course of preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings initiated as a result of the operative-investigative measures carried out by the officers of the RA Anti-Corruption Committee cases of receiving bribes by the officials of the RA SRC, committing official forgery, as well as receiving illegal remuneration by a former employee of the SRC were revealed.
The materials under the criminal proceedings against an official of the Defense Ministry accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of USD 28,000 are filed to court
Based on the evidence obtained in the course the criminal proceedings carried out in the RA Anti-Corruption Committee it was justified that an official of Syunik marz territorial division of the conscription and recruitment service of RA Ministry of Defense demanded and received a total of USD 28,000 in the form of bribes from various persons for taking actions in favor of conscripts and protectionism.
The judge is charged with extorting a bribe in the amount of USD 150,000 dollars: the criminal proceedings has been sent to court with an indictment
As part of a complex and large-scale criminal proceedings conducted by RA Anti-Corruption Committee, as a result of pre-developed urgent, secret investigative actions and implemented operational investigative activities, a case of receiving a bribe in a particularly large amount of USD 150,000 by a judge RA Court for Bankruptcy Cases, was disclosed.
The Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee received Michael Wasco, Senior Adviser on Justice Issues of the US State Department.
The Chairman of RA Anti-Corruption Committee, Sasun Khachatryan, received Michael Wasco, the Senior Adviser on Justice Issues of the US State Department, as well as Alexis Haftvani, the Director of the U.S. Embassy Yerevan’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL), and Christina Afoyan, the Head of the INL Criminal Justice Reform Program.
