On 21 January, the Prosecutor General’s Office received the criminal case against Serzh Sargsyan and others. Iravaban.net received the information from Arevik Khachatryan, Head of the Public Relations Department of the Prosecutor’s Office.

Notably, on 20 January the Special Investigation Service informed that based on the combination of sufficient evidence obtained during the preliminary investigation of the criminal case being investigated at the RA Special Investigation Service, it was found that by the organization of the third President of the RA Serzh Sargsyan and the incitement of the owner of Flash LLC Barsegh Beglaryan, with support of the former Deputy Minister of Agriculture Samvel Galstyan and the Head of Crop Management of the same Ministry Gevorg Harutyunyan, in the period of 25 January to 7 February, 2013, the former Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan an especially large amounts of money 489,160,310 AMD from the reserve fund provided for 15,391,765 liters of diesel fuel planned for the implementation of assistance programs of the Government.

According to the criminal case, Serge Sargsyan was charged with particularly large-scale embezzlement, organization of stealing about half a billion AMD, and inducing Barsegh Beglaryan to commit particularly large-scale embezzlement. Later it became clear that the former Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan is charged with Article 38-179, Part 3, Point 1 (Squandering or embezzlement in particularly large amount), and the Deputy Minister and the Head of the Mentioned Department were charged under Article 38 (3 – 1) of the RA Criminal Code (aiding in squandering or embezzlement in particularly large amount).