Preliminary investigation completed in case involving Ashotyan and  two others

ArmInfo. The preliminary investigation into the criminal case against former  Minister of Education and Science, Deputy Chairman of the Republican  Party Armen Ashotyan and two other individuals has been completed, as  noted in a statement issued by the RA Investigative Committee.

 "As we previously reported, the Investigative Committee of Armenia  is reviewing criminal proceedings regarding the illegal alienation by  seven individuals of a 451.1-square-meter public building located at  38/1 Pushkin Street in Yerevan, which was the property of Armenia and  granted for use to the 'Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages  and Social Sciences' SNCO, as well as large-scale money laundering  and complicity in these acts. During the preliminary investigation,  the criminal proceedings against A.A., G.G., and A.Av., on charges of  abuse of official powers or influence derived therefrom, or excess of  powers committed by a group of officials by prior conspiracy, as well  as complicity in large-scale money laundering, were sent with an  indictment to the prosecutor," the Committee's statement reads.