ArmInfo. A criminal case has been opened against former Minister of Culture Armen Amiryan under Art. 179 (Assignment or embezzlement, Ed.) and Art. 309 (Excess of official authority, Ed.) of the RA Criminal Code.
According to the press service of the IC, it was found that in 2017, under the pretext of covering the costs of the participation of the Armenian delegation in the 2017 Cannes festival, the former Minister of Culture indirectly received 6, 8 million drams from the film director Hovhannes Galstyan, intended for filming.
The criminal case was sent to the Prosecutor General, with subsequent transfer to the Special Investigation Service.