Criminal case against former Minister of Defense of Armenia David  Tonoyan and others with indictment sent to court

ArmInfo. The criminal case against former Minister of Defense of Armenia David Tonoyan and others (the former deputy chief of the General Staff Stepan Galstyan,  businessman David Galstyan and 4 other people) was sent to the court  with an indictment.

As head of the public relations department of the RA Prosecutor's  Office Arevik Khachatryan said in an interview with the media, David  Tonoyan was charged under Clause 1, Part 3, Art. 179 of the RA  Criminal Code, Artak Davtyan - under Part 3 of Art. 375 of the RA  Criminal Code, Stepan Galstyan, Avetik Muradyan, Vladimir Babayan and  Artem Ambaryan - under Part 3 of Art. 375 of the RA Criminal Code and  under Part 1 of Art. 314 of the RA Criminal Code, and David Galstyan,  paragraph 1, part 3 of Art. 178 of the RA Criminal Code and clause 1  of Art. 325 of the RA Criminal Code.

On September 30, 2021, the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan  granted the investigator's petition to use arrest as a measure of  restraint against  former Minister of Defense of Armenia David  Tonoyan for a period of two months. Tonoyan, who is accused of  large-scale embezzlement and official falsifications, does not accept  the accusation.

Tonoyan was arrested within the framework of a criminal case under  investigation by the RA NSS, initiated on the fact of abuse of  official powers and commission of official forgeries by high-ranking  officials of the Defense Ministry and the RA Armed Forces in the  process of supplying ammunition for the needs of the Armed Forces.  "Within the framework of the above-mentioned criminal case, David  Tonoyan, who served as RA Defense Minister in 2018-2020, and director  of the supplier organization David Galstyan, were detained on  suspicion of embezzlement on an especially large scale. On the same  day, both were accused of embezzlement of money on an especially  large scale - 2,277,323,840 drams and falsification, committing  socially dangerous acts, and petitions were submitted to the court  for choosing a preventive measure in the form of arrest, "the RA NSS  said.

Within the framework of the criminal case, Deputy Chief of the  General Staff of the RA Armed Forces Stepan Galstyan was arrested and  then taken into custody. He is accused of abuse of office, which  entailed grave material consequences, and forgery.