One detained in $600,000 theft case

ArmInfo.  There is a detainee in the case of theft of 590 thousand dollars from the building of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Armenia, the Anti-Corruption  Committee reports.

According to the information, based on the message received from the  Investigative Committee of Armenia, a criminal case has been  initiated under Part 2 of Article 446 (official negligence resulting  in property damage on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code  of Armenia, as well as Points 2 and 4 of Part 3 of Article 254 (theft  on an especially large scale committed by illegally entering a  building) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia on the fact  of theft of an especially large amount from the administrative  building of the Main Department for the Investigation of Economic  Crimes and Smuggling of the Investigative Committee of the Republic  of Armenia, located at 3 Deghatan Street in Yerevan.

, - the committee noted.

Earlier, the Pastinfo publication reported that material evidence -  $590 thousand - was stolen from the building of the Investigative  Committee of Armenia in Yerevan. It was noted that the safe where the  money was kept was on the 6th floor, where the intruder entered with  a fake investigator's pass. According to the publication, the head of  the 5th department of the Main Directorate of the Investigative  Committee was detained.