ArmInfo. The Armenian Defense Ministry is primarily interested in identifying all the violations in the sphere and bringing the perpetrators to justice.
First Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia Artur Zakaryan stated this in a conversation with journalists, referring to the recently revealed major corruption scandal in the Ministry. "There has not been a single instance when the Ministry of Defense did not allow such cases to happen, unfortunately, such manifestations are still taking place, but active work is being done to eradicate them, this is a daily process," Zakaryan said, while urging not dramatizing the situation. Zakaryan also said that an official of the ministry carried out an abuse of 45 million AMD. At the same time, he said that the Ministry is trying to reimburse the damage caused in most cases. "The guilty are punished in any case," Zakaryan said. Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia disclosed the case of the theft of medicines worth over 45 million drams from the central drugstore base of the Defense Ministry. Thanks to the efforts of the Military Police, it turned out that in the period from 2015 to 2017, the deputy commander (central drugstore base) of the N military unit, Major L. A. and other officials, for mercenary purposes, abusing their official position and deliberately making false information in invoices, plundered various medicines and equipment totaling about 40 million AMD, which led to severe financial consequences. "On February 28 of this year a criminal case was opened on the basis of articlesfull 375 part 3 and 314 part 1. Major LA was detained, necessary investigative measures are being taken to identify all the circumstances of the incident, as well as the circle of persons involved," reads the statement. The Prosecutor General's Office. The data of various state structures on the amount of theft sharply diverge. If the Prosecutor General's Office reports an amount of about 40 million drams, the Investigative Committee indicates an amount of over 45 million drams.