RA Prosecutor General`s Office plans to confiscate property of head  of National Expert Examination Bureau

ArmInfo. The Anti-Corruption Court has accepted for review the Prosecutor General's Office's claim to confiscate assets of illegal origin from Argam Norayrovich Hovsepyan, director of the National Bureau of Expertise (his powers have been suspended due to criminal prosecution), and individuals associated with him.

According to the supervisory authority, the following are to be  confiscated in favor of the Republic of Armenia: five real estate  properties located in Yerevan, two of which are in the Kentron  (Center) administrative district; one vehicle; and 162,812,000 drams,  not confirmed by the person's legal income, of illegal origin,  transferred to a bona fide purchaser, or not subject to  identification and confiscation based on the legal regulation of Part  4 of Article 20 of the RA Law "On Confiscation of Assets of Illegal  Origin." According to the Prosecutor General's Office, 135,297 drams  (approximately 200,000 drams) of remaining illegal income are also  subject to confiscation.

As a reminder, Argam Hovsepyan took over the SNCO in December 2017.  He has worked at the National Bureau of Expertise since its founding  in 2005.

The National Bureau of Expertise is the largest organization in the  field of forensic examinations. 

Operating as part of the National Academy of Sciences, the National  Bureau of Expertise was established by a decision of the RA  government on July 22, 2004, as part of the intergovernmental  agreement between the governments of the Republic of Armenia and the  United States of America on cooperation in drug control and law  enforcement. The organization is a full member of the European  Network of Forensic Expertise and actively cooperates with similar  organizations in many countries.