"Leia" and "Royalsis Engineering" companies to donate aviation  property to Armenia`s MOD

ArmInfo.The companies and  will donate their aviation technical property  worth 30.1 million drams to the Ministry of Defense of Armenia.  The decision was made on June 5 at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

The company belongs to David Galstyan, known  as , , who is engaged in arms trade.

Galstyan, the owner of the foreign-registered company Mosston  Engineering, was arrested for the first time in February 2021 on  charges of supplying unusable ammunition to the Ministry of Defense  of Armenia.  According to the NSS, businessman David Galstyan signed  an agreement with the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, according to  which he supplied artillery shells for cannons of the 1983-1986  model. However, instead, the Ministry of Defense was supplied with  Czech-made shells of 1977. As a result, these ammunitions were not  suitable for the above-mentioned weapons, which made it impossible to  use them.  The SNB also reported that other criminal cases were also  initiated against Galstyan.

It was later revealed that Galstyan is also involved in a criminal  case on abuse of office and official forgery by high-ranking  officials of the RA Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces in the  process of supplying ammunition for the needs of the Armed Forces,  which is being investigated by the National Security Service of  Armenia. The defendants in the criminal case are former Defense  Minister of Armenia David Tonoyan, former Deputy Chief of the General  Staff Stepan Galstyan, businessman David Galstyan and four other  high-ranking officers. Tonoyan and Galstyan are accused of  embezzlement of money in especially large amounts - 2,277,323,840  drams and falsification, committing socially dangerous acts, and  petitions have been submitted to the court to choose a preventive  measure in the form of arrest.