ArmInfo.Former Deputy Minister of Healthcare of Armenia Vahan Poghosyan was arrested on the case of the "National TB Control Center" SNCO, the press service of the Investigative Committee informs.
According to the source, after the audit at the "National TB Control Center", the center has identified cases of abuse by officials. In fact, a criminal case on 179 and 308 articles of the RA Criminal Code was raised in the Investigative Committee of Armenia.
As a result of the investigation, the identities of the people who committed the financial abuses, as well as the terms and mechanisms of these crimes, were established. Abuse was carried out from 2014 to 2018. Data was obtained on the participation of the Former Deputy Healthcare minister Vahan Poghosyan in these transactions. The preliminary investigation revealed that from December 2011 to November 2016, Vahan Poghosyan, holding the position of Deputy Minister of Healthcare, in the framework of projects on the organization of medicine and HIV / AIDS prevention in Armenia, funded by the Global Fund for HIV / AIDS Prevention and Tuberculosis Control, using his official position, carried out unprecedented abuse. Poghosyan was arrested today on March 7. Preliminary investigation of the case continues.