ArmInfo. As a number of news agencies inform Deputy Head of Davitashen administrative district Khachatur Karapetyan and Head of Yerevan Foudnation Ashot Khazaryan have been detained within the case of misappropriation in the Yerevan Foundation.
To note, Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan is the Chairman of Board of Trustees of Yerevan Foundation. According to the information, representatives of the National Security Service have executed the arrest. ArmInfo's attempts to check the information in the press service of NSS failed.
Yesterday, National Security Service of Armenia informed that an alarm was received from the citizens V.G. and A.Kh. that officials of the municipality for granting permission to build and formalize property rights, in addition to the payments established by law, required to transfer large amounts of money to the accounts of the "Yerevan" Foundation. During the preparation of the materials it was found out that under this pretext, part of the received cash was not paid to the foundation's account, but was appropriated. On the basis of reports of the crime, a criminal case was instituted in accordance with Part 2 of Article 308 (abuse of official powers, which resulted in grave consequences by negligence) and Article 178, part 1 (fraud committed through the use of official position). Within the framework of the criminal case, a search was conducted in the office of the Yerevan Foundation, located in the building of the mayor's office. Large- scale operative-search and investigative measures are being conducted to establish the circumstances of luring money from citizens, spending funds, the purpose, as well as establishing the legality of actions.