Cadaster official charged with bribery 

ArmInfo.  An official of the Cadastre Committee of Armenia received a bribe for entering fake data into the Committee's electronic system and registering unauthorized buildings in the Ararat region.

In particular, as reported by the Anti-Corruption Committee, it was  established that individual entrepreneurs who received the  qualification of a cartographer, surveyor, land surveyor from the  State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Armenia,  by prior agreement, as part of a group of persons, received a bribe  from a citizen for falsifying qualitative and quantitative data on  unauthorized buildings located in the territory of the city of  Artashat in the Ararat region of the Republic of Armenia, and  entering them into the electronic system of the Cadastre Committee of  the Republic of Armenia. Part of the amount was transferred to an  official of the Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia to  ensure unimpeded registration of unauthorized buildings under the  specified conditions.

In addition, during the preliminary investigation it was established  that the said individual entrepreneurs, having provided information  from a person carrying out design activities in the city of Artashat,  as well as a former employee of the Urban Development and Land Use  Department of the Artashat Municipality, prepared a fake  architectural and construction assignment for the development of  design documentation for the construction of a residential building  and auxiliary buildings belonging to another citizen.

Six people are accused of committing the above-mentioned criminal  acts. An employee of the RA Cadastre Committee was charged under  Article 435, Part 2, Clause 3 of the RA Criminal Code for accepting a  bribe.  Arrest was chosen as a preventive measure against him. In  addition, two individual entrepreneurs were charged with aiding and  abetting bribery in the private sector, as well as with the  production and sale of counterfeit documents as part of a group of  persons. Arrest was chosen as a preventive measure against one of  them, and house arrest was chosen against the other.

During the preliminary investigation, charges were also brought  against the citizen who gave the bribe and the persons who assisted  in the production of forged documents. The preliminary investigation  of the criminal case has been completed, the materials of the  criminal case have been sent to the Anti-Corruption Court of the  Republic of Armenia with an indictment