On October 19, a director of a company, which was summoned to the Department for Combating Corruption and Economic Crimes of the General Department for Combating Organized Crime to conduct activities based on the operative information, reported that the head of the 10th Inspection of SRC Small Taxpayers Inspectorate Suren Eloyan, Deputy Samson Arakelyan, and a certain Vaghik, inspector of the same division, in September 2018, told him that in order to avoid and so said “for not noticing” certain defects and irregularities, as demanded a bribe in the amount of 1,000,000 AMD.

On October 22, Samson Arakelyan, deputy head of the department, was detained by the officers of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Department of the General Department for Combating Organized Crime and taken into custody at the moment of receipt of the bribe demanded.

Suren Eloyan, head of the 10th Inspection of SRC Small Taxpayers Inspectorate, Deputy Samson Arakelyan and Inspector Vagharshak Lalayan were arrested on suspicion of taking and receiving bribe and brought to the General Department for Combating Organized Crime. A criminal case has been initiated on charge of requesting and receiving of a large amount of bribe in accordance to Article 311, Part 3, Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the RA Criminal Code. The case was handed over to the Special Investigation Service for preliminary investigation.