Thursday, July 26 2018 11:50

ArmInfo.The pledge set by the Court of Appeal to change the measure of restraint of the security chief Serzh Sargsyan-Vachagan Ghazaryan in the amount of 1 billion drams (about $ 2 million) was made not by Ghazaryan, but by another person. The head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan told journalists on July 26.

According to him, a person unknown made the pledge to the public. "I  do not even remember who," he assured.

On July 24 Vachagan Ghazaryan introduced a pledge established by the  Court of Appeal to change the preventive punishment in the amount of  1bln AMD, and has already been released.

Ghazaryan's lawyer was at a loss to indicate exactly where the former  official had taken such a sum to deposit a pledge. "I can only say  that it is not necessary for this amount to belong to Ghazaryan  himself," the lawyer said.

Ghazaryan was detained at the end of June on charges of illegal  enrichment, as well as in the submission of false information in the  declaration on property and concealment of data to be declared. He  was charged with illegal enrichment, as well as concealment of  information about the real amount of money in the declaration  submitted to the ethics commission of high-ranking officials (314 and  310 articlesfull of the Criminal Code - forgery and illegal participation  in entrepreneurial activities). On June 28, he was arrested for a  period of two months and, disagreeing with the court's decision,  appealed him to the appellate instance.

Earlier, during the searches in Ghazaryan's apartment on Teryan  Street, 35 million drams was found, $ 1,110,400, 230,500 euros, and  in the garage of the latter, $ 2,000 was found during the search. It  was established that on June 25, $ 50,000 was cashed from Kazaryan's  account at Ardshinbank, and from the account of the latter in  "Unibank" was cashed $ 120,000 and 436 million drams. Ghazaryan was  taken to the SNB, and with him uncovered amounts were found. In  total, Ghazaryan found 460 million drams, $ 1,272,900, and 218,000  euros.