Monday, May 18 2020 19:24

ArmInfo. On May 18, a regular court session was held on the case of the head of the State Audit Office (authority suspended) David Sanasaryan and others.

Within the framework of the meeting, correspondence on Facebook dated  February 1, 2019 between Sanasaryan and the Minister of Health of the  Republic of Armenia Arsen Torosyan was presented. 

According to the data presented, the minister said that it was  unacceptable that the State Audit Office made changes to the criteria  for the tender for the purchase of hemodialysis devices, noting that  these changes would ensure the victory of a particular company.  Sanasaryan, in response, retorted that these steps were taken to  increase competition in the market, where there is a monopoly between  criminal authority Arthur Asatryan (known as Don Pipo - ed.) And  businessman Samvel Aleksanyan. At the end of the meeting, Sanasaryan  told reporters that the aforementioned persons were selling  hemodialysis machines at inflated prices, thereby earning  superprofits.

The next hearing is scheduled for 10:30 on June 1.

Recall that in April 2019, Sanasaryan was charged with abuse of power  during a tender for the supply of medical equipment for hemodialysis.  As part of the tender for the purchase of equipment for hemodialysis,  the NSS previously arrested the head of the SCS  procurement control  department Samvel Adyan, the chief specialist of the same department  Gevork Khachatryan and the accountant of Zorashen LLC Taron  Avetisyan. Later, Gevork Khachatryan was released from custody, and a  written undertaking not to leave the place of rest was chosen as a  measure of restraint.

According to the National Security Service, Samvel Adyan, the acting  head of the procurement control department of SCS, together with the  chief specialist of the same department Gevork Khachatryan, having  entered into a preliminary conspiracy on the basis of personal  interest, contrary to the interests of the service, using his  official position, was illegal during 2018-2019 intervened in the  organized procurement procedures of controlled facilities in order to  acquire the medical equipment necessary for the Ministry of Health of  Armenia and a number of medical centers, with The goal is to ensure  victory in the announced tenders of the trade organizations sponsored  by them.