ArmInfo. In the Directorate General for Investigation of Especially Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of Armenia, the preliminary investigation of the criminal case initiated on the basis of the abuses committed in the process of developing and implementing the program "North-South Road Corridor" continues.
Earlier it was reported that in the framework of the implementation of the program "Road Corridor North- South", obvious abuses were revealed, as a result of which the damage caused to the state, according to preliminary calculations, amounted to 23.553.817.000 drams.
As a result of large-scale investigative and procedural actions carried out as part of the preliminary investigation, other criminal manifestations have been identified, for which two other criminal cases have been initiated, which are combined into one case, investigated in connection with cases of alleged abuse committed in the process of developing and implementing the program. Road corridor North-South>. In particular, in the course of the investigation, data were obtained that, as part of the contract with the director of a subcontractor company that performs asphalt paving works at some sections of tranche 1 (Yerevan-Artashat and Yerevan-Ashtarak) from November 21, 2014 to 2016, drafted executive acts for reception and delivery and tax invoices issued to the customer by deception and abuse of his confidence were transferred work not in the amount of 771.652.520 drams in accordance with the criteria provided by the contract, and work at lower standards y in 556,615,520 AMD.
As a result of the fraud, a large amount of 215.037.000 drams was stolen.
On the basis of data containing indications of obvious new crimes revealed during the preliminary investigation, from On May 24, 2019, a new criminal case was initiated under paragraph 1 of part 3 of article 178, part 2 of article 214 and part 2 of article 308 of the RA Criminal Code.
In addition, during the preliminary investigation, it was reported that the director of the same subcontractor company, in order to evade taxes, purchased from a number of companies false documents about the expenses of the company, which in the prescribed manner included in the reports of the SRC, as a result he evaded paying taxes in especially large amounts.
On this fact, on April 30, 2019, the head office for the investigation of particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia decided to initiate a criminal case under part 3 of article 189 and part 2 of article 205 of the RA Criminal Code.
On the basis of the evidence obtained, on May 31, the director of the company subcontractor was charged under paragraph 1 of part 3 of article 178, part 3 of article 38-189 and part 2 of article 205 of the RA Criminal Code.
The last one, as a guarantee for the compensation of the damage, was transferred 200 million drams to the deposit account of the RA Investigative Committee. According to the decision of the investigator, he was also arrested on the 31.900.000 AMD found during a search of his apartment, 3 million rubles of the Russian Federation and 60.000 US dollars. To determine the exact amount of tax liabilities subject to additional execution, in the specified company and a number of other Companies that have issued company tax invoices have been assigned tax checks. Preliminary investigation of a criminal case continues.