ArmInfo. While occupying the post of the head of the Armenian Police, Vladimir Gasparyan gave the rank of colonel to his wife, and the rank of lieutenant colonel to his daughter. The RA National Assembly member Hrachya Hakobyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.
The lawmaker noted that Gasparyan's wife and daughter, without actually attending work, received tens of millions of drams as salaries. According to him, this case will soon be investigated in court.
To recall, Vladimir Gasparyan held the post of head of the Armenian Police from 2011 to 2018. In the fall of 2019, he was charged with abuse of power, as well as the appropriation and embezzlement of funds in large amounts. According to the investigation, from June 1997 to November 2011, while occupying the post of chief of the Military Police and then Deputy Minister of Defense, Gasparyan was aware of the fact that three servicemen, who had been admitted to the Military Police at different times, did not show up for service, since one of them worked as a driver of the brother of the third president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan - Leva Sargsyan, and the other two were bodyguards of his second brother Alexander Sargsyan. At the same time, the corresponding salary was accrued from the state budget in the light of the actual non- fulfillment of direct official duties.
Earlier it was also reported that when buying housing for the needs of the educational complex of the Police, on March 30, 2017 in the capital an apartment was bought for 10 million drams, which on June 22 of that year, by order of Gasparyan, was donated to an employee who got a job only 6 days back. Meanwhile, the right to receive housing as a matter of priority belonged to persons who had served in the structure for 5 years or more.