ArmInfo.The court granted the investigator's request for the arrest of Chairman of the Urban Development Committee of Armenia Vahagn Vermishyan. This was reported by the press service of the NSS.
It should be noted that on February 5, the National Security Service of Armenia announced the arrest of the Chairman of the Urban Development Committee of Armenia Vahagn Vermishyan, who, according to the report, using official powers contrary to state interests and having agreed with several developers, he five times received bribes in the amount of 1 to 2.5 million drams in return to make the necessary building decisions. To hide the receiving of bribes, Vermishyan opened a company conducting design work and registered it in the name of one of his relatives. For receiving projects, the official sent it the developers with whom he worked. In addition, in October 2019, Vermishyan met with the owner of several construction companies, whom he promised to introduce him to the title of Honored Builder of Armenia. In exchange, he received $ 5 thousand and building materials for about the same amount.
As part of the criminal case, the suspects were taken to the NSS, and three of them, including the chairman of the committee, were detained. The official who received the bribe confessed to the crime. The investigation is ongoing.
Vermishyan was appointed Chairman of the Urban Development Committee on March 21, 2019. Prior to that, in 2017-2018, he was an adviser to the mayor of Yerevan, and in 2014-2017 - the chief architect of the Orlov region. Among Vermishyan's projects are the first and second terminals of Domodedovo Airport, a seaport in Sochi with coastal infrastructures, a sports complex in Astrakhan, and a new Yerevan circus.