Media: In Armenia, a lawsuit was opened due to the failure of a  tender for the supply of weapons from Russia

ArmInfo.A criminal case "on negligent attitude to service" has been opened in Armenia because of a disruption of the tender for the supply of weapons in which the  Russian company participated.

According to RIA Novosti, in May the Ministry of Defense of the  Republic for the first time in its history announced a competition  for the supply of military equipment in the amount of several million  dollars.  Only Russian ORSIS could satisfy the qualification  requirements.

Soon it became known that the tender was closed without explanation.  ORSIS appealed to the Appeals Commission and to the lawyer  representing her interests in Armenia, as a result of which a lawsuit  was filed. The military attache of the Armenian Embassy in Russia was  also informed about the incident.  The Armenian Ministry of Defense  confirmed the information about the criminal case. "All additional  information will be provided at the end of the work of the  investigating authorities," the agency's representative told RIA  Novosti.

ORSIS, part of the Promtechnology group, has been supplying Yerevan  with weapons, ammunition and optics for several years. The company  said that now it is on the black list.

The Ministry of Defense denied reports of problems with the supply of  weapons to Armenia "In the (Armenian. - Ed.) Department, they said  that we did not provide the necessary documents, which is untrue.   After that, for several weeks we gave all the information that was  officially requested the Ministry of Defense from our counterparties.  As a result, it was announced to us that we allegedly did not provide  acts of acceptance for some positions, "said an ORSIS representative.

According to him, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia also demanded  the payment of a bank guarantee of several hundred thousand dollars,  although by law this is possible only if the company won the tender  and itself refused to sign the contract.

"We turned to the appeal commission - we asked for documents that  were no longer directly related to the tender, and at the last moment  announced that there weren't several documents that we actually  submitted.  Moreover, they put the stamp" top secret "on the protocol  of the appeal commission, although the tender itself was closed, but  unclassified, "a company representative shared the details. In his  opinion, the current situation threatens to disrupt the project for  the construction of a cartridge plant in Armenia. It was assumed that  the enterprise would be created for Russian investments, it was a  question of an amount of several million dollars.

Meanwhile, according to this information, the Ministry of Defense  advised ArmInfo to contact the investigating authorities, and the  Investigative Committee of Armenia reported that there was no such  case under consideration in the department. The Prosecutor General's  Office and the Special Investigation Commission are still specifying  this information.