The preliminary investigation of criminal proceedings investigated in the RA Anti-Corruption Committee against V. Gasparyan, who held various positions in the state service during 2000-2018, accused of committing many abuses of a corrupt nature, is over. The materials of the proceedings were handed over to the supervising prosecutor with an indictment, with a request to send it to the court.
During the preliminary investigation, sufficient evidence was obtained that V. Gasparyan, as well as A. Hakobyan, who actually performed the duties of the security chief of the latter in 2011-2018, as a result of abusing their official powers, patronage and other corrupt criminal activities during their years of office acquired property significantly exceeding their legal income and legal income of their family members, including expensive houses and vehicles, and in order to hide their criminal origin they legalized them in various ways, in particular through formal transactions of registering the names of individuals related to them.
In particular, the preliminary examination substantiated that during2000-2018 V. Gasparyan's wife, having been appointed to positions in the Military Police of the RA Ministry of Defense and the RA Police, for years did not show up for duty and did not fulfill her duties. In addition, having been appointed to a position in the RA police, she improperly performed her official duties; V. Gasparyan, being aware of all this, abused his official powers, deliberately did not take appropriate measures prescribed by law, under such conditions, his wife was unjustifiably paid particularly large sums, totalling more than 36 million AMD.
It was also found out in the criminal proceedings that while occupying various positions in the public service in 2000-2018 in addition to abusing official powers V. Gasparyan also committed official forgery, particularly large-scale waste, as well as engaged in other criminal activities of a corrupt nature. As a result, the former police chief criminally acquired property significantly exceeding the legal income of himself and his family members, from which he spent a total of AMD 700 million for the renovation of his private houses in Gegharkunik Marz and Yerevan city, as well as the area of the industrial building.
By the preliminary investigation it was found out that V. Gasparyan legalized (laundered) criminally obtained property totalling about 2 billion AMD.
In addition, the head of the RA Police, V. Gasparyan, being a high-ranking official with the duty to submit a declaration, in order to avoid possible liability in case of declaring valuable property in his name, in 2013 instructed A. Hakobyan, who actually was performing the duties of the head of his security unit, to purchase cars from “Avangard Motors” Limited Liability Company, and to account for them in the name of the latter in order to hide the criminal origin of the funds to be paid for the purchase of said vehicles, more than 150 million AMD.
V. Gasparyan was charged under points 1 and 3 of part 3 of article 190, part 2 of article 308 of the former Criminal Code of RA, point 3 of part 3 of article 256, point 3 of part 3 of article 44-256 and part 1 of article 445 of the RA criminal Code, for committing the criminal acts described above.
Notification. the person accused of a crime is considered innocent until his guilt is proven in accordance with the procedure established by the RA Criminal Procedure Code by a verdict entered into legal force.
