Cases of theft on especially large scale by MoD officials revealed in  Armenia

ArmInfo.Cases of large-scale theft, fraud and forgery by officials of the RA Ministry of Defense  have been revealed in Armenia. The Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia reports.

According to the materials of the criminal case, M.Kh., after being  appointed commander of the Nth military unit in 2018, as well as the  head of the financial service of the same military unit, S.P.,  reached an agreement with the representative of the Gazprom Armenia  company A.D. on the write-off of unused gas intended for a military  unit. From October 2018 to March 2019, the representative of "Gazprom  Armenia", as a result of mechanical intervention, made monthly  readings of the gas meter. As a result, the Ministry of Defense paid  12 million drams for unused gas. Later A.D. transferred 2 million  drams of this amount to the commander of the military unit.

It was also established that in the same way M.Kh. stole money to pay  for electricity consumption. In particular, the head of the financial  service of the military unit and the representative of the "Electric  Networks of Armenia" company reached an agreement on the issue of  selling the unused part of the electricity, stealing a total of 11  million drams.

After S.P. was relieved of his post in June 2019, the commander of  the unit assigned illegal actions to the head of the public utilities  N.V. He continued to falsify the data, as a result, the military unit  paid 8 million drams more for electricity in 2019-2022. In 2018-2022,  the unit commander himself received about 4 million drams from an  employee of Electric Networks. 

All participants in the criminal scheme were charged under the  relevant articles of the RA Criminal Code.  During the preliminary  investigation, more than 21 million drams of damage caused to the  state was collected, and to ensure compensation for the rest of the  damage, the property belonging to the accused was seized. The  criminal investigation has been completed. The materials of the  proceedings were transferred to the supervising prosecutor with an  indictment, with a motion to send to the court.