ArmInfo. National Security Service of Armenia unveils information on special activities being held in Yerevan municipality. As the press center of the National Security Service informs, 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. Earlier ArmInfo informed that the National Security Service of Armenia holds a special activity in the Yerevan Mayor's office. On June 11, Minister of Education and Science Araik Harutyunyan stated in a conversation with journalists that the fund, whose chairman is Mayor Taron Margaryan, may have corrupt schemes. "When people privatize any territory, they are offered to transfer money to the" Yerevan" fund. Yesterday it was revealed that they try to suspend activities of the Yerevan Foundation in a hurry," the Minister said, adding that it is necessary to make the court accept the petition for termination bankruptcy process on the provision of documents.