The director and chief accountant of the Stepanavan Medical Center have been suspended from their positions and are accused of embezzling 25 million drams.

ArmInfo.  The director and chief accountant of the Stepanavan Medical Center have been suspended from their positions. The preliminary investigation into a criminal case involving the embezzlement of 25 million drams has been completed. This is stated in a report by the Investigative Committee.

According to the case materials, the director, knowing that in 2021 the medical center had purchased medical equipment worth 9 million drams from one of the companies and had not paid for it, refused to pay for the goods under the false pretext of a lack of funding, embezzling the said 9 million drams.

In addition, the director, in agreement with the chief accountant of the same company and a number of employees, as part of a group and with the aim of committing fraud, made fictitious ambulance calls in July-August 2023, entering the relevant records in the call registration logs and route sheets provided to ambulance drivers. They also prepared adult medical records in the names of employees of the Stepanavan Medical Center and their relatives who were entitled to medical care under the state order, while these individuals had not actually visited the medical center due to health problems and had not received medical care, as a result of which they embezzled a total of 16 million drams.

Thus, as a result of the aforementioned criminal actions, an especially large amount of 25 million drams was illegally embezzled.

During the preliminary investigation, it was also established that, in order to arrange a mortgage loan on more favorable terms, the director of the medical center increased the salary of an employee of the Stepanavan Medical Center by 30,000 drams starting in May 2023, and then included the latter as a co-borrower, embezzling a large amount of 960,000 drams entrusted to him.

During the preliminary investigation, a criminal case was initiated against the director of the Stepanavan Medical Center under a number of articles of the Criminal Code.  As a preventive measure, he was placed under a travel ban  and suspended from his position.

The criminal case was transferred to the supervisory body together with the indictment.