Ex-head of Civil Aviation Department charged with causing AMD 274mln  damage to public 

ArmInfo. The former head of the General Department of Civil Aviation (GDCA), with the assistance of the director of the enterprise subordinate to him, F.M. and his cousin K.M., used his official position contrary to the interests of  the service, thereby causing significant damage to the legitimate  interests of the state and the enterprise, and inadvertently entailed  grave consequences, the press service of the Investigative Committee  of Armenia reports.

According to the information, A.M., ignoring the fact that the annual  lease amount for the aircraft clearly exceeded the cost of purchasing  the aircraft, did not take measures to purchase the aircraft using  state funds allocated to GDCA, and at the same time intended to  purchase the aircraft through a company that actually belonged to him  and to receive illegal income by leasing it to this company.

At the same time, realizing the legislative ban on registering a  company in his name and in order to conceal the criminal act that he  was going to commit, A.M. entered into a criminal conspiracy with his  cousin, purchasing a company in his name.

A.M. entered into an aircraft lease agreement for the amount of  218,900 drams per flight hour with a company whose imported aircraft  clearly did not meet international aviation standards, technical  specifications and did not have an operating certificate. Then F.M.  drew up and used an obviously forged official document stating that  the lease fee of 218,940 drams per flight hour corresponded to market  prices.  During the term of the agreement, the cost of one flight  hour of the aircraft was artificially inflated without justification.

As a result, having leased the aircraft purchased by the company for  only 86 million 210 thousand 827 drams, the company actually owned by  A.M. was paid 592 million 77 thousand 300 drams through bank  transfers, whereas in the case of performing the same number of  flights according to the company's price list, the maximum could have  been 317 million 887 thousand 702 drams.

Thus, as a result of the actions of the latter, a particularly large  sum of 274 million 189 thousand 598 drams was unreasonably  transferred to the company.

A public criminal prosecution was instituted against A.M. under Part  2, Clause 5, Article 441 of the Criminal Code (abuse of official or  official powers by an official, or influence exerted therefrom, or  delegation of powers), F.M. was charged under Article 46-441, Part 2,  Clause 5 (abuse of official or official powers, or influence arising  therefrom, or assistance in the delegation of powers) and Article  457, Part 1 (forgery of documents, stamps, seals, forms, or the sale,  production, or use of forged documents, stamps, seals, forms), and  K.M. was charged under Article 46-441, Part 2, Clause 5 (abuse of  official or official powers, or influence arising therefrom, or  assistance in the delegation of powers). During the preliminary  investigation of the criminal case, property belonging to A.M. was  seized in the amount of the damage caused. The criminal case was sent  with the indictment with a petition to the supervising prosecutor for  its approval and referral to the court for consideration on the  merits.