$590,000 theft case: persons detained 

ArmInfo. The Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia reports the disclosure of a case of theft of 590  thousand dollars from the building of the Investigative Committee (IC).

According to the information, within the framework of a criminal case  initiated in one of the structural divisions of the Investigative  Committee on the fact of theft of funds in an especially large  amount, recognized as material evidence, as a result of large-scale  operational and investigative measures jointly carried out by the  operational units of the Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs  of the Republic of Armenia, the National Security Service of the  Republic of Armenia and the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic  of Armenia, a long-prepared and carefully planned case of theft was  disclosed, as well as the identities of the group members, their  roles, as well as the mechanism of theft and the places of storage of  the money.

The perpetrators have been detained. As a result of the searches and  other procedural actions, most of the stolen funds in the amount of  590,000 US dollars - 578,800 US dollars were found and seized. The  arrested persons confessed under pressure from indisputable facts.  The investigation continues, and measures are being taken to collect  the remaining $11,200.

In the near future, the Anti-Corruption Committee will make an  official statement, which will set out, within acceptable limits,  both the circumstances revealed during this publicly announced trial  and the efforts made by law enforcement agencies to solve the crime  and its participants.

Earlier it became known that material evidence - $590 thousand - was  stolen from the building of the Main Department for the Investigation  of Economic Crimes and Smuggling 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 Pastinfo, the stolen money was the only amount of money  stored in the building that all the investigators of the department  knew about. Moreover, it was stored in a fireproof safe on the sixth  floor of the building for months. The amount was not transferred to  the Investigative Committee's deposit account even after the first  attempted theft in December 2024 (a criminal case was even initiated  based on the incident). As a result, on May 20 during working hours,  at around 16:30, the alleged criminal entered the building using a  fake investigator's pass. He stayed there all night. The person's  exit from the building using the same pass was recorded on May 21, at  around 08:30. That is, he remained in the building for about 16  hours, calmly stole the money, and left in the morning, when the  investigators began to arrive at work.

The head of the fifth department has been detained in this case. The  information was confirmed by the Anti-Corruption Committee and noted  that a criminal case has been opened, one person has been detained.

According to Armlur, one of the detainees is the acting head of the  Investigative Committee's Department for Investigating Economic  Crimes and Smuggling, Gor Tadevosyan. According to the publication,  an unknown man came to him before the money went missing.