ArmInfo. The Investigation Committee of Armenia opened a criminal case on the abuse of official authority and embezzlement on a particularly large scale on the part of a number of employees of the Armenian Ministry of Defense.
According to the materials of the investigation, for 14 years since 2004, the military policeman-driver N of the platoon of the special assignment of the Armenian Defense Ministry did not come to work, did not fulfill his official authority, but received salary, vacation pay, and resigned on May 17, 2018, also received calculated benefit in gratitude "for long-term military service", getting the right to receive a military pension. However, according to the materials of the investigation, all these years, he actually worked as a driver for the director of the ''Pyunik'' charity foundation Levon Sargsyan, who is the elder brother of the third president of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan. Meanwhile, officials of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, on the basis of personal interests, abusing official powers, did not give a process to this case. In this connection, a criminal case was initiated; important documents were confiscated within the framework of the case. The results of the investigation IC will report later.