During the preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings initiated by the NSS Investigation Department and investigated by the Anti-corruption Committee of the RA regarding cases of receiving bribes and abusing official powers by an official of the Kentron administrative district of the Municipality of Yerevan, as a result of operative-intelligence measures taken by the employees of the RA Anti-Corruption Committee and the Yerevan City Department of the RA NSS, and the investigative actions carried out, factual data were obtained that the first-class specialist of the relevant department of the Kentron administrative district of the municipality, E.V., for illegal inaction in June-August 2022 for the benefit of H.H., A.S., L.M. and S.H., engaged in commercial activities in the Kentron administrative district, it is to say, demanded and received a bribe from the mentioned persons for not registering the offenses related to their activities and not taking the appropriate action within the scope of the powers assigned to him in order not to subject them to responsibility.
According to the preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings initiated as a result of the work with the RA National Security Service in the RA Anticorruption Committee, it was established that the officials of the RA SRC received about 5 million AMD as a bribe from the taxpayer with prior consent, and then legalized the property obtained through criminal means.
With the combination of sufficient evidence obtained during the preliminary investigation of the multi-episode criminal proceedings examined by the RA Anti-Corruption Committee, cases of giving, receiving, assisting in receiving bribes, receiving and giving illegal remuneration by the official of the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations and other persons in 2021-2022 were revealed, in which Minister of Emergency Situations Andranik Piloyan and employees of the Ministry of ES, including heads of various subdivisions and other persons, were involved.
In the framework of the criminal proceedings initiated as a result of joint work with the RA National Security Service in the RA Anti-Corruption Committee, cases of the importation of RA perfume, as well as the failure to carry out proper customs control in the process of the export of tobacco from RA and giving a bribe to an official of the SRC employee in exchange for the unhindered transportation of goods across the RA border, were revealed.
Within the criminal proceedings initiated as a result of the cooperation with the RA National Security Service in the RA Anticorruption Committee, facts were obtained indicating the commission of a crime, stating that resident of Yerevan T.S., with a direct intention of embezzling other people's money by means of fraud, under the pretext of exempting conscript H. M. from compulsory military service with a false diagnosis, tried to extort particularly large amount of 5,000 US dollars equivalent to 2,375,950 AMD from his father, G.M.
Within the framework of the criminal proceedings initiated as a result of the cooperation of the RA Anti-Corruption Committee with the RA Cadastre Committee, facts indicating the commission of a crime were obtained, stating that the former official of the RA Cadastre Committee, G. M., with the assistance of a number of people, as well as officials abusing their official powers and committing official forgeries, fraudulently embezzled 7 plots of land with a total market value of 4.5 billion AMD, 4 of which he embezzled with prior agreement with his close friend A.M.
Based on the combination of sufficient evidence obtained during the preliminary investigation of the criminal case examined by the RA Anti-Corruption Committee, it was substantiated that S.A. tried to bribe a police official in the amount of AMD 270,000 at the instigation of A.A. in order to obtain driving licenses, but the crimes were not completed due to circumstances beyond his control.
Based on the combination of sufficient evidence obtained during the preliminary investigation of the criminal case examined by the RA Anti-Corruption Committee regarding the cases of illegal participation in business activities and non-payment of taxes, it was substantiated that the RA Police officials abused their official powers and limited the competition between the two European and Russian companies that supply the police with vehicle registration plates by anti-competitive activities, as a result of which the state suffered a loss of 67 163 790 AMD. At the same time, it was substantiated that the head of two commercial organizations operating in the Republic of Armenia, connected to the participant of the European company, did not pay particularly large amounts of taxes with the help of his brother.
Within the criminal case initiated by the RA National Security Service and investigated by the RA Anti-corruption Committee regarding cases of illegal tree cutting in the protected areas of the Vahagni forest state of the Vanadzor forestry branch of the Forestry Committee of the RA Ministry of Environment, "Hayantar" SNCO, large-scale illegal tree cutting cases were revealed, as a result of which the state was particularly large-scale property damage of more than 6 million AMD.
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