ArmInfo. The Office of Corruption and Crimes Against the Economic Activity of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Armenia has investigated criminal cases initiated on the facts of violations and abuses recorded in High Voltage Electric Networks CJSC. In the course of the checks, it turned out that for many years an organized corruption scheme had been operating in the company.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office, by comparing the analysis of materials, it turned out that officials of High Voltage Electric Networks, in order to steal funds stipulated by the concluded contracts on the performance of contract work, made a surcharge to the volumes of unsold works. And the company's employees drafted and signed false executive acts stating that the work was performed in full. Under this scheme, sums in especially large amounts were stolen.
It also turned out that the responsible officers of the company, using their official position, assigned the material and financial resources entrusted to them in especially large amounts, belonging to the company. As a result of the interest of the employees of the company in the process of organizing and conducting purchases when performing contractual work, theft of someone else's property on a particularly large scale was committed.
In addition, close personalities of the director were taken to work at various positions of the CJSC, who for a long time did not attend work with him, did not fulfill their labor duties, but received wages on a large scale for this.
According to the above organized corruption schemes in cases of violations and abuses recorded in the High Voltage Electric Networks CJSC in 2018-2019 cases on the grounds of embezzlement on a particularly large scale were initiated by abuse of office (Clause 3 of the Article 179 of the RA Criminal Code), fraud (Article 325 of the RA CC), abuse of authority (Article 214 of the RA CC) and official negligence (Article 315 of the RA CC).
During the investigation, it turned out that, according to preliminary calculations, the damage inflicted on these schemes to the state amounted to about 1 billion 109 million drams, of which 20 million were already restored during the preliminary investigation.
Under the prosecutor's control, the necessary investigative and procedural actions are taken to ensure a complete objective and comprehensive investigation of criminal cases, clarify the extent of the damage caused, establish responsible persons and fully disclose the corruption mechanisms used. The investigation continues.