ArmInfo. On the fact of abuse authority in the Agency for Water Management (WRMA) of the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia, a criminal case has been raised in the Main Investigation Department of the most important cases of the Investigative Committee of Armenia in accordance with the first part of Article 308 of the RA Criminal Code.
This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office. According to the report, the case was initiated on the basis of materials obtained as a result of an interview given on May 15 this year. ex-deputy head of the Agency Lusine Taslakyan, in which she reported on a number of actual abuses carried out in the agency.
In particular, it was stated that at the direction of the head of the agency Vahan Davtyan, the employees in his subordination sent citizens applying for obtaining water use permits to Tat Holding, which actually belonged to Davtyan and his mother Anush Saadyan in order to calculate the cost of permissible water abstraction . The process of granting permission to individuals and legal entities, ordered in other companies at more affordable prices, was unjustifiably postponed; or artificial obstacles were created, or even permits were not finally granted.
It is also noted that Tat-Holding LLC, established in 2017, provided paid services to the company Viola Jur for a total of AMD 50 million, whereas similar services in other companies could be ordered at lower prices.
According to the data of the State Register of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, Tat- Holding, whose director was Anush Saadyan, was established on June 26, 2017, and on May 21, 2018 was declared bankrupt. To conduct the preliminary investigation, the case was referred to the RA Investigation Committee.