As a result of operative-investigative measures carried out on the basis of a report given to the RA Anti-Corruption Committee by a citizen, as well as investigative and other administrative actions, cases of regularly demanding bribes of 150-170 thousand AMD from citizens by an official of the RA Ministry of Defense were revealed.

In particular, according to the preliminary investigation in the proceedings initiated by the Anti-Corruption Committee, it was substantiated that M. V., who received a citizenship in RA, on May 2, 2023 submitted relevant documents to the Ministry of Defense's conscription and conscription recruitment service in order to register with the armed forces before receiving a passport. Then, on the same day R. G. called the mentioned citizen and offered to give a bribe of AMD 150,000 to the official of the Ministry of Defense in exchange for providing the documents earlier, as well as for organizing the process of not calling the training sessions.

After that, the citizen submitted a report to the Anti-Corruption Committee about demanding a bribe from him, on the basis of which, within the framework of the proceedings initiated in the Committee, a secret investigative operation "Simulation of Bribery" was carried out, during which officer of the department of planning and analysis of the Ministry of Defense conscription and recruiting service, Major S. M. received a bribe of AMD 150,000 from M. V. through the assistance of his acquaintance R. G. Immediately after receiving the bribe, Major S. M. and the latter's assistant R. G. were detained by the operative-investigative department of the Anti-Corruption Committee.

During the preliminary investigation in the criminal proceedings, the cases of demanding and receiving bribes from 4 more citizens by the same official of the Ministry of Defense in order to provide the necessary documents for military registration in a short period of time were revealed, which were carried out in the following manner.

K. M. sent the data of the persons who applied to the military recruitment department to the mobile phone number of his acquaintance R. G.'s wife. The latter, in turn, forwarded them to her husband's phone number, after which in order to contribute to receiving a bribe R. G. contacted via phone with the mentioned persons and provided them with information in order to provide the necessary documents for the military registration in a short period of time.

With the assistance of R. G. in four cases and in one case personally K. M. in the manner described above demanded a total of 650 thousand AMD bribe from 5 people in the period from April to May 2023. Moreover, in order to induce the decision to pay bribes in the mentioned persons, R. G. informed the latter that after being counted in this way, they will not be called to training sessions in the future, while K. M.'s official duties did not include attraction of citizens who applied for registration in the training sessions.

For committing the above-mentioned criminal acts, K. M. was charged under  part 1 of article 435 of the RA Criminal Code (5 counts), and R. G. was charged under part 1 of article 46-435 (4 counts).

The preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings is over. The materials of the proceedings were handed over to the supervising prosecutor with an indictment, with a motion to send it to the court.

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.