ArmInfo.The nephew of the ex-minister of finance, ex-head of the KGD Gagik Khachatryan Karen Khachatryan was arrested. This decision was made on August 30 by the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan.
Judge Robert Papoyan granted the request of the NSS investigator and issued a decision on the arrest of Karen Khachatryan.
It should be noted that on August 27 Gagik Khachatryan and Karen Khachatryan were detained by officers of the National Security Council of Armenia. They were charged with 179 (misappropriation or embezzlement of funds on an especially large scale). According to the prosecution, a fraudulent scheme was involved, according to which, some registered employees did not attend work, but received a salary. Recall that in different years Gagik Khachatryan held high positions under both the presidency of Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sargsyan.
In particular, he was appointed to the post of chairman of the State Revenue Committee in August 2008. From 2014 to 2016, he headed the Ministry of Finance of Armenia. In turn, Karen Khachatryan, under the leadership of Gagik Khachatryan, worked in the SRC, he served as head of the Department of Internal Security of the SRC.