Accused of swindling and giving commercial bribery

The preliminary investigation of the criminal case initiated on swindling and giving commercial bribery has been completed in the RA Police. The prosecutor who was supervising the preliminary investigation of the criminal case has confirmed the bill of indictment.

According to the evidence obtained during the preliminary investigation, from July 2010 to 3 November, 2010 I. Gevorgyan together with S. Taziyan and other persons swindled 166 775 568 drams from the State Budget as well as gave 3 525 000 drams of commercial bribery to the administrative employees.

According to the materials of the criminal case, based on the Decision N 1330-N (30.10.2008) “On establishing the process of casting lots for assisting the tax administration and making payments”, those cash checks which were given to the physical bodies in the territory of the Republic of Armenia and did not win were presented to the territorial tax inspectorates until April 2010. The physical bodies received one percent of the total sum.

Later, the post offices of the “Haypost” CJSC made the above-mentioned payments. Till July 2010 I. Gevorgyan presented batches of cash checks to the territorial tax inspectorates and a number of post offices and received bonus sums. In July 2010 I. Gevorgyan came to a prior agreement with S. Taziyan and they created a group and decided to swindle money in large amounts from the State Budget by using the cash checks which had not won.

In order to hide his personality, I. Gevorgyan applied to his fellow students and asked to gather the passport copies of different citizens in order to present valid cash checks. The latter gathered more than 200 passport copies. I. Gevorgyan even gave from 500 to 1000 drams to some citizens.

Besides, I. Gevorgyan got from S. Taziyan false cash checks of the second and third quarters of different organizations which did not correspond to the fiscal reports of the organizations. Then he included these checks in the batches of checks of other organizations and together with passport copies presented them to the post offices in Yerevan and swindled money.

They gave commercial bribery in the amount of 3 525 000 drams to the employees of the “Haypost” CJSC as they knew that they could receive the money only by IDs. As a result they swindled 166 775 568 drams from the State Budget.

I. Gevorgyan has been charged according to the RA Criminal Code Articles 178, part 3, points 1 and 2 and 200, part 2. This part of the criminal case has been separated and sent to the Court of First Instance of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts. S. Taziyan is under search. The preliminary investigation of the criminal case initiated against the employees of the post offices is still carried out.