As a result of operational-search measures within the framework of the criminal proceedings initiated by the RA National Security Service and investigated by the RA Anti-Corruption Committee, as well as investigative and procedural actions, factual data was obtained that H. S., holding the position of dean of the faculty of economics and management of Yerevan State University since 2000, associate professor of the chair of the same faculty G. T. in a group with and other lecturers, in the period from February to March 2023, demanded and received different amounts of money as bribes in exchange for committing illegal acts for the benefit of students studying in different courses of the faculty. In particular, in order to organize the process of assigning positive grades to the student of the faculty without actually checking the knowledge, G. T. demanded a bribe of 120,000 AMD for each exam, a total of 480,000 AMD, and then informed faculty dean H. S. about it. Having received the consent of the dean, G. T. with the latter appealed to the professors who accepted the exams with a request to assign a positive grade to the said student. As a result, the student received positive grades without the necessary knowledge test.
During the preliminary investigation in criminal proceedings conducted by the RA Anti-Corruption Committee, factual information was obtained that G. M., holding the position of director of "Armavir Regional State College" SNCO, embezzled a total of more than 38 million AMD and committed official forgery during 2019-2021.
According to the preliminary investigation carried out within the criminal proceedings initiated by the RA Anticorruption Committee on the basis of materials received from the Internal Security Department of the Police, cases of demanding and receiving bribes by four traffic police inspectors from more than two dozen drivers with prior consent, as well as cases of official forgery, were revealed.
A regular visit of students to the RA Anti-Corruption Committee was organized today within the framework of the "Promotion of Democratic Culture in Armenia" program implemented by the initiative of the "Union of Conscious Citizens" non-governmental organization and under the support of the "Freedom House" organization.
Sasun Khachatryan, the chairman of the RA Anti-Corruption Committee hosted Giorgi Sharvashidze, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Republic of Armenia and Kamo Galustyan, the Police Attaché of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Armenia.
On May 16, the Chairman of the RA Anti-Corruption Committee, Sasun Khachatryan, hosted Franco Sanchez-Hidalgo, the director of programmes of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), and Olena Rodionenko, the head of the IDLO office in Yerevan.
With the evidence obtained by the criminal proceedings carried out in the RA Anti-Corruption Committee it was substantiated that G. Gh., occupying the position of the forester of the Vahagni Forest State of the “Vanadzor Forestry” branch of the “Hayantar” SNCO, deliberately did not fulfill the powers arising from his position, as a result of which the state suffered a property damage of AMD 3,228,000.
In the frames of criminal proceedings initiated as a result of operational and investigative measures jointly implemented by the RA Anti-Corruption Committee and the RA National Security Service, a number of cases of taking bribes from the citizens of the Republic of Armenia and the Islamic Republic of Iran by the officers of the Syunik territorial division of the RA Urban Development, Technical Standards and Fire Safety Inspectorate were revealed.
With the evidence obtained by the criminal proceedings carried out in the RA Anti-Corruption Committee it was proved that K. Kh. and V. S., occupying respectively the positions of the head of the trade, services and advertising division of the staff of the head of Erebuni administrative district of Yerevan city, and the chief specialist of the same division, committed theft of a large amount of money entrusted to them with prior consent.
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